Cool Stuff

[RicInOR]

I put this under cool like the original 500, Mini, Bug, and CVCC were cool. You didn't want one, but if you had to have transpo, they were an option
and then later, they became sort of retro-cool. In high school some classmates put a teachers cvcc on the second floor, because of course they did.
Beaverton High. I liked the teacher, blanking on his name ....

Anyway, Citroen is liking this to the 2CV, the peoples car. LIke the Robin in England, counts as a scooter in some EU nations - good for insurance purposes.

2CV


500


cvcc


mini



Robin



Bug

 

[RicInOR]

Chemists discover single-molecule magnet whose magnetic properties can be controlled via laser pulses; material could enhance cloud computing speeds by 100 times or more (More)

 

[RicInOR]

Reddit - Dive into anything

bit.ly

 

[RicInOR]

Stoosbahn

 

[RicInOR]

12 yr old Photographer - of models (cars)

Anthony Schmidt Photography (@anthony_ryan_schmidt) • Instagram photos and videos

139K Followers, 7,634 Following, 4,258 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Anthony Schmidt Photography (@anthony_ryan_schmidt)

www.instagram.com

 

[RicInOR]

These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch

Google teamed up with more than 1,200 museums and galleries around the world to bring anyone and everyone virtual tours and online exhibits of some of the most famous museums around the world.

www.travelandleisure.com

 

[RicInOR]

The Valkyrie name is back.


Original



New

 

[RicInOR]

Reddit - Dive into anything

bit.ly

 

[RicInOR]

https://www.reddit.com/r/motorcycles/comments/fqort8

 

[RicInOR]

New blood test can detect 50 types of cancer

System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard to detect cancers

www.theguardian.com

 

[RicInOR]

UCI-led team designs carbon nanostructure stronger than diamonds

Novel plate-cell architecture reaches theoretical limit of performance

news.uci.edu

"Nanolattices hold great promise for structural engineers, particularly in aerospace, because it's hoped that their combination of strength and low mass density will greatly enhance aircraft and spacecraft performance. "



What else came from aerospace materials ... ;-)

Wonder if in the future, this will be 3d printed at home

 

[RicInOR]

Speaking of 3d ...

Science | AAAS

www.sciencemag.org

in photography, one of the big concepts today is computational photography. Your smarty-pants phone's camera may be such a device (tho I know many Luddites hang around here.)

AI to your design, before you print it - look for optimizations in printing etc. All you need is a super computer.

 

[CamoDeafie]

@Ura-Ki too bad we don't yet have warehouse sized printer to do full size aircraft concepts for ya eh?

 

[Ura-Ki]

@Ura-Ki too bad we don't yet have warehouse sized printer to do full size aircraft concepts for ya eh?

Close! We can print some pretty big parts, and then assemble them into full size things!
As it is now, I have a 12"X16" CNC multi table that can knife cut, laser cut, plasma cut, and 3D router, as well as hot knife foam, which I use to make 3D molds that I can then lay up in carbon, kevlar, nomex, and fiberglass and even wood or paper! I can also cut laminates into complex shapes and insert them into the molds to make seriously strong parts that are 1/3 to 1/2 the weight of alloy's! Al it takes is Auto Cad II and an open mind!

 

[RicInOR]

@Ura-Ki too bad we don't yet have warehouse sized printer to do full size aircraft concepts for ya eh?

Watch just from 6:45-- 8:00

That might goto why we don't have garage-sized printers...

 

[CamoDeafie]

Watch just from 6:45-- 8:00

That might goto why we don't have garage-sized printers...

He printed them in pieces and glued them together, without any overlap/tab/slot joints , no spars, or stressed skin construction

Edit. The prototype fell apart at the exact joints where he glued them together

 

[Ura-Ki]

Ye, that's not too smart! All those parts are now only as strong as the glue joint's!

 

[CamoDeafie]

I gotta admit; the rib design is clever. If he had put in something where ya have basically the ribs sticking out, and the skin on the other part sticking out, he could have made it much stronger by having more surface areas for the glue... also a layer of adhesive skin or heat shrink wrap, which would likely put tension on everything, thus stressed skin/reinforcement.

 

[Ura-Ki]

Had he simply added overlapping joints ( even finger joints) or tongue and groove, or dove tails, it wouldn't have failed! But that's why we experiment, to learn those lessons so that we can build better next time!

 

[RicInOR]

aeroelastic flutter

Famous 75-year-old clip of ‘Galloping Gertie’ has been lying to us all along: study

The clip of the wildly swaying bridge deck was actually sped up when it was converted from the original film, some physicists now say.

www.seattletimes.com