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This is Flying Frankenstein. He's 30 years old. I bought him in 2006 for 100 euro's. Immediately transplanted the wiring and dash from my previous car. In 2008 I started a conversion, from a carburetted 1.9 and 5 speed manual, to a 1.8 turbodiesel with automatic. In this configuration, it's the only car in the world. I plan to drive it until it's at least 50 years old.

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For those unfamiliar with Citroën's world famous hydropneumatic suspension: It's self-leveling, and the car is parked so it's in it's lowest position.

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Majorjim!

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This is Flying Frankenstein. He's 30 years old. I bought him in 2006 for 100 euro's. Immediately transplanted the wiring and dash from my previous car. In 2008 I started a conversion, from a carburetted 1.9 and 5 speed manual, to a 1.8 turbodiesel with automatic. In this configuration, it's the only car in the world. I plan to drive it until it's at least 50 years old.

http://imgur.com/a/ipf2j

https://youtu.be/pEJSX6XxRBI

For those unfamiliar with Citroën's world famous hydropneumatic suspension: It's self-leveling, and the car is parked so it's in it's lowest position.

Ha! Awesome!

I was just going to mention the gas suspension. The French certainly know how to make for a comfy ride. They used to use these french cars for filming horse races because of the level ride.

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I've made a water cooling plate for my laptop that tends to overheat the desk underneath so the incoming air is heated and all that increases its total core temperature.

Here's the blueprint.

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It's still a prototype because it doesn't have thermal grease to increase the plate-tubing conductivity, but it works very well nonetheless. I've tried it out without some details and it worked great. The desk is not hot anymore. The plate is cold and core temperature is at least 5 °C lower which makes the fan work a lot less loud.

Hopefully I'll post some photos soon, but it's not a big deal. Looks like a large DIY dewar with two tubes and one cable sticking out of it. Very simple and unobtrusive.

Details are important. Heatsink needs to be isolated as much as possible, and the plate needs to be very absorptive.

Conductor (other side matte black).

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Heatsink.

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Mad Rocket Scientist

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Since this thread was bumped, I finished building this a couple of weeks ago:

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/580/20773804429_72cdc97080_c.jpg

(Some more pics from the build here.)

People's reaction to it is very clearly divided by age. Most everyone over about 35 says "Cool!", under 35 it's "Huh? What's that?"

I'm under 35, and I get it!

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I've been building a ~350W HiFi amplifier, some board design and all. But I keep getting distracted, so it's still a WIP ;)

I build many other things electrical, but usually or others, through work.

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Building this Fine Molds MF...Had to learn how to airbrush.

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Designed some PCBs to switch on the lighting with a TV remote...

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The yellow battery pack is 10 AA NiMH cells with a fast charger (PCB on the right) I built to charge the cells in 170 minutes...

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Fiber optics for lighting...

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Mother of God, that Millenium Falcon is just amazing. I wouldn't have the patience to build one :)

I do "planespotting" a lot in the summer, which includes a lot of "photography". Sometimes I attend press events where they let the journalists go into the A/C, the apron, taxiways, etc.

I dunno why I posted only A332s, maybe cause they are the largest passenger aircraft to fly regularly to LHBP (until Emirates introduces the B77W in December!). :)

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So, so amazing. Is that a first time airbrush or did you do practice art? Both ways, the paint is amazing, so is the circuitry and lighting.

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Mother of God, that Millenium Falcon is just amazing. I wouldn't have the patience to build one :)

I do "planespotting" a lot in the summer, which includes a lot of "photography". Sometimes I attend press events where they let the journalists go into the A/C, the apron, taxiways, etc.

I dunno why I posted only A330s, maybe cause they are the largest passenger aircraft to fly regularly to LHBP (until Emirates introduces the B77W in December!). :)

http://i.imgur.com/2A3fgGp.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/L0JqISi.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Oqgswjf.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/A9SUita.jpg

WOW! awesome pictures!

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So, so amazing. Is that a first time airbrush or did you do practice art? Both ways, the paint is amazing, so is the circuitry and lighting.

Thanks! I played with the airbrush and some butcher paper for days before I had the nerve to try it on the model...I've never used one before this. I'm much more confident with the electronics design.

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Building this Fine Molds MF...Had to learn how to airbrush.

Designed some PCBs to switch on the lighting with a TV remote...

The yellow battery pack is 10 AA NiMH cells with a fast charger (PCB on the right) I built to charge the cells in 170 minutes...

Fiber optics for lighting...

Nice work on those panel lines! What brush are you using? I use a anthem.

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Nice work on those panel lines! What brush are you using? I use a anthem.

I bought mine used from a guy at work, he was going to learn to airbrush, but never got around to it...It was never used and some of the kit was unopened. I got it for about half price! Its a badger.

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