Spotlight[Technology]: Not-So-Random Musings
- Friday, December 07 2012 @ 02:51 pm EST
- Contributed by: masodo
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I'm assuming that my brother-in-law is one of my 12 regular readers, so when I read about this I had to beat him to the punch in sharing it.
Courtesy of Hack A Day comes the story of a "real" transformer that has been 10 years in the making. For about $24,000 (I'd wait for the dollar to do better against the Yen, but I wouldn't be scrambling to get one) you can get this remote control car that transforms into a remote control robot.
Someday we will be able to print these things up as kits at home? For $24,000 I'd rather get a laser cutter and a 3D printer, but that is more my speed.
Enjoy this Dan:
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Source: Not-So-Random Musings
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For several years now I have been driving a "Flex Fuel" vehicle - which means it can run on different blends of gasoline and ethanol. In my area I have a choice to use either Regular Unleaded or E-85 (85% ethanol fuel and 15% gasoline by volume.) The E-85 is typically priced substantially lower than Regular gas but there is a trade-off in that E-85 does not deliver the same mileage as Regular.