Image if these amazing Goodyear concept tires from 1958 had caught on. They sported solid, translucent “neothane” tires that had 18 light bulbs embedded in them. The tires were scrapped after ten years of development attempts to perfect them. The material did not perform well under wet conditions and tended to melt under aggressive breaking.
Here is a video about the car seen in the first image. It is a 1953 Lincoln Capri that was heavily modified by George Barris, legendary car designer/customizer who created TV’s Batmobile, Knight Rider, the Munsters cars, and many others.
These images were posted to Twitter by fiction author Ewan Morris.
Stop breadboarding and soldering – start making immediately! Adafruit’s Circuit Playground is jam-packed with LEDs, sensors, buttons, alligator clip pads and more. Build projects with Circuit Playground in a few minutes with the drag-and-drop MakeCode programming site, learn computer science using the CS Discoveries class on code.org, jump into CircuitPython to learn Python and hardware together, TinyGO, or even use the Arduino IDE. Circuit Playground Express is the newest and best Circuit Playground board, with support for CircuitPython, MakeCode, and Arduino. It has a powerful processor, 10 NeoPixels, mini speaker, InfraRed receive and transmit, two buttons, a switch, 14 alligator clip pads, and lots of sensors: capacitive touch, IR proximity, temperature, light, motion and sound. A whole wide world of electronics and coding is waiting for you, and it fits in the palm of your hand.
Have an amazing project to share? The Electronics Show and Tell is every Wednesday at 7pm ET! To join, head over to YouTube and check out the show’s live chat – we’ll post the link there.
