snail v.s. TBM; fight!

Geplaatst op 18 mei 2017 door admin

When talking about Elon Musk, one has to admit the guy is a millipede with an untamable amount of energy.
(Tip; the twitter handle BoredElonMusk is a gem !)
His latest focal point are TBM’s, aka Tunnel Boring Machines.
The company is called: “The Boring Company” and as with almost every company he starts, there’s a competition!
This time it’s a race (km/h) between a snail (Gary) and a TBM (Godot).

Musk also gave a TED talk about the subject of tunneling (ofcourse from an USA perspective).

more info can be found here and here.

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various links again to trickle the mind

Geplaatst op 16 mei 2017 door admin

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1) Beautiful short movie about going to the moon

2) Science fiction becomes reality (kinda…) with the tricoder xprize

Even the doctor was there!

3) The unknown abilities of Horseshoe crab

Very interesting story on popularmechanics about these ancient creatures.

4) He, what’s Steve Ballmer up to these days?
OK, USA facts; cool.

USAFacts was inspired by a conversation Steve Ballmer had with his wife. She wanted him to get more involved in philanthropic work. He thought it made sense to first find out what government does with the money it raises. Where does the money come from and where is it spent? Whom does it serve? And most importantly, what are the outcomes?

It is really nice to live in a country (USA) where all data is public.
But it is also nice to live in a country (NL) where privacy is still a thing…

5) New cool player for electrification of a normal bicycle!
The GeoOrbital Wheel

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latte 8; you know the drill, click away!

Geplaatst op 28 juni 2016 door admin

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1) Beautiful animation festival winner:

2) close up of animal eyes. The Llama is beautiful
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3) Last month the famous Glastonbury festival was held in the UK.
Glastonbury data usage per person: +/- 1.2 Mb/h
In other words: 175.000 visitors, 5 days long 1.2 Mb/h = 25 Tb of total data traffic!
They also had WiFi cows;
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Funny thing is that temporary network hardware is called: C.O.W. or Cell on Wheels 🙂

5)
more info after the link

6)
Sisyphus pushing in lego

7) last month at Airport Eindhoven.

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link latte nr. 7 the links continue…

Geplaatst op 23 juni 2016 door admin

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1) I came across a very cool offshore solution that I want to share. The company, Ampelmann (of course NOT a German company, but a Dutch one 🙂 ) has a killer logo and specializes in offshore access solutions. In other words, how to get safely and easily from 1 ship to a windturbine or another ship at open sea. The video’s (here and here) are simply amazing and one can easily imagine how comfortable it is to use their technology.

2) Talking about spring/damping systems, here’s a cool animated GIF of a competition race car from the Baja 1000
I really love the way it just drops and doesn’t jump up again; nice and smooth.
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Other “experiments” with suspensions can be found here and here.

3) On imgur you can find these “12 oddly satisfying Gifs for your pleasure“. The last one is my favorite.
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4) I like it when somewhat complicated maters are explained swiftly and clearly; the rolling shutter camera effect.
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