e-iron chef winner
This is a fully autonomous (it works when it wants to) vehicle constructed at BarCamp LA (with Jason Cosper).
It was the winner of (and only functional entrant in) the E-Iron chef competition. Apparently, I was supposed to "sign up" with a "team" for this competition, select a pile of junk from the donated crap table, and make something neat.
I wasn't really trying to make a car, I was just trying to make the motor explode... but the foam blocks, popsicle sticks, and duct tape roll just spoke to me and before long I had whipped out the leatherman, started whistling the MacGyver theme song, and covered the table in bits of discarded plastic and foam.
Ingredients:
It needed a bit of a rolling start, and needed a crack team of experts to play out the extension cord, but it roll. And didn't blow up.
Damn.
It was the winner of (and only functional entrant in) the E-Iron chef competition. Apparently, I was supposed to "sign up" with a "team" for this competition, select a pile of junk from the donated crap table, and make something neat.
I wasn't really trying to make a car, I was just trying to make the motor explode... but the foam blocks, popsicle sticks, and duct tape roll just spoke to me and before long I had whipped out the leatherman, started whistling the MacGyver theme song, and covered the table in bits of discarded plastic and foam.
Ingredients:
- Three blocks of "florists foam"
- Two mini caster wheels
- Ten feet of duct tape
- Popsicle sticks
- One discarded computer cooling fan
- One 120VAC to 12VDC transformer
- One chopped up Mutaytor flyer
- More popsicle sticks
It needed a bit of a rolling start, and needed a crack team of experts to play out the extension cord, but it roll. And didn't blow up.
Damn.