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The $20 Device to Replace Dirty Carburetors
In search of a cleaner motorcycle, Lihang Nong, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, developed the PicoSpray. This all-in-one electronic-fuel-injection system could be used in mowers, generators, bikes, and ATVs.

I love gifs, but my bandwidth doesn't handle kids streaming netflix/my wife playing games/AND me watching gifs. Could we keep gifs in the gif thread please?

nderwater wrote: The $20 Device to Replace Dirty Carburetors In search of a cleaner motorcycle, Lihang Nong, a recent graduate of the University of Michigan, developed the PicoSpray. This all-in-one electronic-fuel-injection system could be used in mowers, generators, bikes, and ATVs.

This interests me, I have a sickness and have seen pretty much all of the turbo and/or fuel injected Briggs & Stratton videos that Youtube has to offer.

I have done some Googleing about this, not much to be found outside of the "Green Save The Planet" blogs and the like. I watched/read some interviews with the kid behind this, but there's nothing more shown that what is pictured. The "test mule" bike shown in the UM video has a suitcase strapped to the back, wires going everywhere, and duct tape. I assume a lot of those wires are for monitoring/testing.

I have questions, how does it time the injection pulse? How does it measure the Air Fuel ratio? Where do they expect to put the battery, and alternator to keep said battery charged on these Asian Country dirt bikes and scooters that seem to be his target market? I gathered from the reading that it's gravity fed fuel just like the carbs it's intended to replace, that removes some complication.

Am over thinking this? Besides a power source it still needs some sort of crank/timing sensor, and if it's true goal is fuel efficiency and cleaner emissions it's going to need a lambda sensor in the exhaust, no?

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In reply to nderwater:

Will it withstand an EMP?

Flight Service wrote:

phaze1todd wrote: Watching the "Rat Channel" with the kids and there's a new Cars TV movie called "The Radiator Springs 500 1/2" and been trying to think why one of the main characters looks so familiar. Oh wait, that's right.

I can not find this short!!! very frustrating

It's not where they say it is, try here:Disney video Now I know why the C7 looks so familiar, it's Lightning McQueens distant cousin.

In reply to 06HHR:

found it here.

MrJoshua wrote: I love gifs, but my bandwidth doesn't handle kids streaming netflix/my wife playing games/AND me watching gifs. Could we keep gifs in the gif thread please?

If your havin' bandwidth problems I feel bad for ya son. But the Gifs thread for funnies and these ain't one.

In reply to Flight Service:

http://video.disney.com/watch/the-radiator-springs-500-1-2-cars-toons-tales-from-radiator-springs-4ff60dbfef1fd7b420f27984

You're Welcome

In reply to SyntheticBlinkerFluid:

Thank you!

iadr wrote:

slantvaliant wrote:

If that had a Burning Man scene in the background it would make more sense (and be fiberglass, or papermachie). But that appears to be real. See kids?, Context, sometimes it helps to pay attention to context.

Looks like mediocre CGI from a bad scifi movie about giant prehistoric fish.

LOL:

Flight Service wrote:

phaze1todd wrote: Watching the "Rat Channel" with the kids and there's a new Cars TV movie called "The Radiator Springs 500 1/2" and been trying to think why one of the main characters looks so familiar. Oh wait, that's right.

I can not find this short!!! very frustrating

06HHR wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

phaze1todd wrote: Watching the "Rat Channel" with the kids and there's a new Cars TV movie called "The Radiator Springs 500 1/2" and been trying to think why one of the main characters looks so familiar. Oh wait, that's right.

I can not find this short!!! very frustrating

It's not where they say it is, try here:Disney video Now I know why the C7 looks so familiar, it's Lightning McQueens distant cousin.

Here's where things get a little interesting. Those sneaky Pete's at Pixar (just Google "Pixar Theory")! There's little "easter eggs" everywhere such as Mater's licence plate number being "A113" which is the digital arts classroom number at Cal. Or, Lightning McQueen's race number being "95" which is the year that Toy Story was released. Just examples of the endless amount of easter eggs.

Now, take a look at Shifty Sidewinder's race number:

Not sure it's a coincidence that it's the same year as the first Mexico 1000.

moparman76_69 wrote:

iadr wrote:

slantvaliant wrote:

If that had a Burning Man scene in the background it would make more sense (and be fiberglass, or papermachie). But that appears to be real. See kids?, Context, sometimes it helps to pay attention to context.

Looks like mediocre CGI from a bad scifi movie about giant prehistoric fish.

You do realize that the Whale Shark still exists? News link: http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2014/08/fisherman-straps-giant-whale-shark-to-roof-of-truck-to-drive-home/

Flight Service wrote:

MrJoshua wrote: I love gifs, but my bandwidth doesn't handle kids streaming netflix/my wife playing games/AND me watching gifs. Could we keep gifs in the gif thread please?

If your havin' bandwidth problems I feel bad for ya son. But the Gifs thread for funnies and these ain't one.

Then maybe there should be a GIF thread? Because I agree, GIFs in the regular hotlink thread are annoying as berk. At least if they were all ghettoized in one place, it wouldn't randomly berk up the hotlink thread.

GameboyRMH wrote: LOL:

I wonder how many people will get the reference?

phaze1todd wrote:

06HHR wrote:

Flight Service wrote:

phaze1todd wrote: Watching the "Rat Channel" with the kids and there's a new Cars TV movie called "The Radiator Springs 500 1/2" and been trying to think why one of the main characters looks so familiar. Oh wait, that's right.

I can not find this short!!! very frustrating

It's not where they say it is, try here:Disney video Now I know why the C7 looks so familiar, it's Lightning McQueens distant cousin.

Here's where things get a little interesting. Those sneaky Pete's at Pixar (just Google "Pixar Theory")! There's little "easter eggs" everywhere such as Mater's licence plate number being "A113" which is the digital arts classroom number at Cal. Or, Lightning McQueen's race number being "95" which is the year that Toy Story was released. Just examples of the endless amount of easter eggs. Now, take a look at Shifty Sidewinder's race number: Not sure it's a coincidence that it's the same year as the first Mexico 1000.

Pixar is full of car guys. I stopped by there for a tour (an IT guy was a customer of ours) and there was a Nash Metropolitan in the parking lot on your average Monday. Fantasy Junction is literally across the street. Meanwhile, every single detail needs to be built for a CG film - so it's not surprising that the level of little details is huge.

Traffic jam at the FM Summer Camp.

Re: Tom Swift and His NiMH Battery:

NiMH was top secret until 1971.

Fine no more Gifs. How about a non-just-funny gif thread instead?