{"id":533,"date":"2011-03-10T06:26:48","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2011\/03\/10\/110310_drillcycle\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T06:26:48","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T12:26:48","slug":"110310_drillcycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/10\/110310_drillcycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Drillcycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is just awesome. This guy Nils Ferber built a&#8230;a&#8230;well, I&#8217;m not sure what to call it, but it&#8217;s a vehicle that&#8217;s powered by a couple of 18-volt cordless drills. (If your first question is &#8220;why,&#8221; then, sadly, this blog isn&#8217;t for you.) The Drillcycle reportedly has a top speed of almost 20 mph. Click on each photo to see a larger version:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><a rel=\"prettyPhoto[110310]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle1.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle1-t.jpg\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><a rel=\"prettyPhoto[110310]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle2.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle2-t.jpg\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><br \/><a rel=\"prettyPhoto[110310]\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle3.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-2\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/misc\/drillcycle3-t.jpg\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"3\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>More details on this project are found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilsferber.de\/ex.html\">here<\/a>, and a description of the design and fabrication process is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nilsferber.de\/ex_process.html\">here<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Given the rider&#8217;s position, a full-face helmet is certainly justified; one can generate a serious case of road rash even at 15 mph.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I wonder what Nils could do with a chainsaw?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><i>Link via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dudecraft.com\/2011\/03\/screwdriver-powered-vehicle.html\">Dudecraft<\/a><\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK, this is just awesome. This guy Nils Ferber built a&#8230;a&#8230;well, I&#8217;m not sure what to call it, but it&#8217;s a vehicle that&#8217;s powered by a couple of 18-volt cordless drills. (If your first question is &#8220;why,&#8221; then, sadly, this blog isn&#8217;t for you.) The Drillcycle reportedly has a top speed of almost 20 mph.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2011\/03\/10\/110310_drillcycle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Drillcycle<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,3,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-web","category-design","category-tools-diy","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}