$250,000 hard drive teardown

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Have you ever seen hard drive platters this big before? Of course you haven't, the cost of this unit is way beyond your pay grade. But now that it's decades old we get a chance to post around inside this beast. [Dave Jones] -- who we haven't seen around these parts in far too long -- takes a look inside this $250,000 storage device. In this episode of the EEVblog [Dave] is tearing down a late … [Read more...]

$500 Craigslist car competes against $400,000 race car…

*Vrooom vrooooooom* What, just because the car already makes car sounds, doesn't mean I can't too!.

...and wins. Well, 3rd in class, but still surprisingly well for such a cheap entry. This is truly a show that with enough elbow grease and headlight fluid anything can be accomplished money just makes it a ton easier. Everything from the roll cage to the 5 minute gas tank fix was fabricated by [Bill Caswell]. Well -- fabricated is a rough term for duct tape at that point, but this is still an … [Read more...]

Coffee powered Car-puccino

Mmmmmm coffee.

We can only imagine how amazing this coffee burning car smells at it speeds down the highway at a maximum of 60mph. Don't jump out of your seat so quick to get your own, while the idea sounds fantastic, the mileage will bring you back to earth rather quick. At 3 miles per kilo of coffee, it can turn that £36 210 mile trip into one between £910 and £1,820 with a stop to re-bean-fill every half … [Read more...]