We were on TV!

Today our car was shown on national television - channel 2 on their Saturday night news broadcast.

It was short and fun! You can download the entire movie clip (2:30 minutes) from eMule. Some pictures from the clip...

We assemble all the parts for a run:

Zvika is driving the car:

Yuval is driving the car:

Zvika is explaining to the reporter about the project. Short transcript:

Reporter: But it's complicated to build such a thing, no?
Zvika: Not that complicated. You just need to really want to do it.
Reporter: Now please explain - why do you really want to it?
Zvika: Good question :-)

The reporter, Yuval Dror -- thanks man, for a great report!

-Zvika and Yuval

We were on TV!

Today our car was shown on national television - channel 2 on their Saturday night news broadcast.

It was short and fun! You can download the entire movie clip (2:30 minutes) from eMule. Some pictures from the clip...

We assemble all the parts for a run:

Zvika is driving the car:

Yuval is driving the car:

Zvika is explaining to the reporter about the project. Short transcript:

Reporter: But it's complicated to build such a thing, no?
Zvika: Not that complicated. You just need to really want to do it.
Reporter: Now please explain - why do you really want to it?
Zvika: Good question :-)

The reporter, Yuval Dror -- thanks man, for a great report!

-Zvika and Yuval

We'll be on TV

well... at this point we're on a video tape of TV crew...
It should air this Saturday May 21st at 20:00 israel time.

Channel 2 news came to visit us (the power of the BLOG) for 3 hours at the workshop
to see how we setup the RVC, drive it and try to explain why the hell are doing this.
I think that they answered themselves when each of the crew members had to take it for a ride before he left (see the pic)




More pics on http://www.flickr.com/photos/15794156@N00/

We'll be on TV

well... at this point we're on a video tape of TV crew...
It should air this Saturday May 21st at 20:00 israel time.

Channel 2 news came to visit us (the power of the BLOG) for 3 hours at the workshop
to see how we setup the RVC, drive it and try to explain why the hell are doing this.
I think that they answered themselves when each of the crew members had to take it for a ride before he left (see the pic)




More pics on http://www.flickr.com/photos/15794156@N00/

Desgin draft for new Gauges Panel Faceplate

We plan to modify the panel faceplate to support some usefull information for the RVC
for example - Current Gear - see draft


here it is inside the panel:


If you have any ideas about other interesting info to put in - please write a comment

Desgin draft for new Gauges Panel Faceplate

We plan to modify the panel faceplate to support some usefull information for the RVC
for example - Current Gear - see draft


here it is inside the panel:


If you have any ideas about other interesting info to put in - please write a comment

Original guages are back in place

Today I went with Gil, a friend of mine, to install the original guages back in the car. It took us a while to put everything back together, having the lights work and the microcontroller moving the needles. It turns out that most of the light bulbs got burned while we played with them. Also, it took us a while to figure out that our power adaptor did not have enough juice, so we hooked up a computer power supply and used the 12V to get more amperage.



We then put it back in the car...



Gil admiring his work at 2am..



(Sorry about the low quality of the pictures today, but I did not have my digital camera and had to settle for my cellphone)

-Yuval

Original guages are back in place

Today I went with Gil, a friend of mine, to install the original guages back in the car. It took us a while to put everything back together, having the lights work and the microcontroller moving the needles. It turns out that most of the light bulbs got burned while we played with them. Also, it took us a while to figure out that our power adaptor did not have enough juice, so we hooked up a computer power supply and used the 12V to get more amperage.



We then put it back in the car...



Gil admiring his work at 2am..



(Sorry about the low quality of the pictures today, but I did not have my digital camera and had to settle for my cellphone)

-Yuval