This spring I went to Oregon to help out my family's softball tournament. It's normally a 10 hour drive so I decided to find a faster way. I strapped a rocket to my car and was able to make the trip in an astounding 6 minutes! Top speed was 6900 miles per hour, or over mach 9. To prove this to the world, I put a video camera on the front bumper which is about a foot off the ground.
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7MB Low Quality AVI:
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65MB High Quality AVI:
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I hooked up a cheapy Fry's camera to my front bumper and wired it to a VCR powered by a 12-110 inverter. To check the camera mounts, I bought a $120 car LCD TV. Since the trip takes 10 hours, and VCR tapes only last for 6, I had to switch tapes once. Fortunately I was able to stop for lunch in Sacramento with about 7 minutes left on the first tape. Switching tapes while driving on the freeway was something I was really trying to avoid.
To create the video I had to capture the entire movie (25 gigs or so), extract it to single frames with VirtualDub, delete 99 out of 100 of them (left 10,000 frames), color correct and deinterlace them, and then create an avi from the stills with VideoMach. Then I just had to find a song that was exactly six minutes long.
| Trip: | 695.3 miles in 9.5 hours |
| Movie: | 6 minutes (95 times faster) |
| Speed: | 6953mph, mach 9.13 |
Other Projects
Ben Garrison shot his trip form Montana to Seattle with a Canon a80 and put together a really nice video: http://bengarrison.net/videos/
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