When touring the US in particular - a federal classification law puts everything under 400 sq ft (fully deployed when stationary) as an RV, and everything above as a Mobile Home. The larger sizes can attract greater tax as they can be taxed as an actual house ( Read more... )

So really, I'd be pretty happy with something like this:

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About the only changes I'd make is that I'd have the small front and back walls non-folding and just have their outside edges slide in along the inside face of the outer wall when the whole thing folded up. That'd save one wall-thickness in travel mode and would mean those walls could have ( Read more... )

Dude, I want a motorhome full of this stuff.

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(Although honestly, it works better with the sound off.)

Just a vaguely depressing thought on the super-expanding semitrailer ideat that keeps jogging around inside my skull ( Read more... )

While working on-again, off-again on my ideal RV-slash-toyhauler-slash-superexpanding semitrailer-based design, I realised that if I was still sticking with a roughly 16'x8' 'garage' area in the back, that could actually accommodate a slightly slimmed down Batman Tumbler. Or a 100mpg Hummer H3. Or a shortened hybrid Humdinga - preferably with an ( Read more... )

Just sketched some more thoughts on expandable fifth-wheel motorhomes. I think I've figured out how to get the lower storey back up to 40' wide, although I'm limiting the upper one to about 24' and expanding the centre section to a full 53' trailer. If I pull the length of the slideouts back to 36', that will allow storage of the floor panels under ( Read more... )

Six-millimetre-thick credit card sized phone:

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Unicat's home in a truck designs, particularly the Terracross series, have some very nifty uses of interior space.

Camp out in a parking lot - in style.

Remember how I was interested in putting an entire set of expandable living quarters inside a shipping container on the back of a truck?

Been done.

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At least I know who to get to build the thing, now... and he's even done some 3x2 designs.

So given the speculation about having a couple of forty-foot walls in a travel trailer completely covered with what amounts to a high-resolution LCD screen, the problem became how to use that hardware ( Read more... )