h20 defensive applicator

Hmm thinking a little about car defensive systems ahem.. It would need a source of water, a delivery system and a method of propulsion.

Ideally it would be roof mountable and be able to swivel for at least 140 degrees. Something with a largish tank and would fire by a trigger pull. propulsion would be by pump, gas, pressure, gravity etc. twin barrels would be nice. So would a perspex screen shield or similar.

So we have 12v in the car
so we can look at windscreen motors, pond pumps, fish tank pumps, drill pumps

Or we could manually pump into store
garden spray units, empty polythene water holders

or gas CO2 probably
any sort we can get water displacement with !

Perspex shield might be tricky, but not impossible.

water tank could be anything pressurised or not, but most likely plastic....

trigger(s) probably best to get prefabricated.

Mixing electrical power and water usually not a good ideal

Not so much a water cannon, more a water base retaliation method..

are we nearly there yet ? yes, slap, ow, cry, whimper

For those who need to know ...



Thats less than half a year now and I still haven't sorted out my wardrobe ...

Pump up the volume, pump up the volume,

Yippee , we got all four speakers working plus the sub !

The loom was a mess but with a bit of time we managed to sort it out. Also strapped the sub across the rear two speakers (without a crossover or amp) and it seems to work. Yes I know my electronic lecturers would be screaming at me about wrongly matched impedance and maxium driver power, but life is a little two short to worry about that ! I will do the math later .. perhaps .. beer first

Will now need to test it somewhere away from the house to see if it work ok even when the car is making very nasty noises.

Dog Tags

Got some dog tags (yes I know they are not on the list but I thought they were cool).

http://www.dog-tags.co.uk/

The have the initials, names, blood groups, DOB and the works telephone number JIC.

I'm leaving on a jet plane...

Looks like we have tickets for the trip back, thanks to a tip from Brad (cheers mate).

Flight 3015 departs 30/9/08 22:05 Ciampino (CIA) and arrives London Stanstead (STN) 23:45.

Ryan air were offering flight for €0.02

Err plus €9.98 tax (thanks Mr Brown)
err plus €4.00 boarding
err plus €9.00 baggage
err plus €4.00 French ? handling
err plus €4.00 check in

or €31.00 or about £24.00 Since I was expecting it to be about €90 this is rather a nice surprise.

Hurrah, now we just have to book the ferry there and all the hotels. I always have the feeling I'm just about to book the wrong date, but apparently everyone does.
:)

I'm not getting excited about this at all, not even a tiny bit... honest

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Working wifi on the road

Just stumbled on the WMWiFirouter package for the Tytn2 (on the left) which allows the tytn to to become a wifi router in adhoc mode to any networked enabled device (like my asus eee). It even supplies its own DHCP server and real time logs, so you can debug the tcp to , 3G or grps connections. Which means if we can get a mobile signal we should be able to get a eee to work anywhere ! So we should be able update the blog on the run with the eee and not just the phones.

For the non techies this is a good thing, now move on there is nothing for you to see here , move on nothing to see :)