From Gizmag:
Festo has added to its robotic menagerie with the creation of a robotic seagull that weighs just 450 g (15.87 oz) and boasts a wingspan of 1.96 m (6.4 ft). Dubbed the SmartBird, the ultralight flying robot was inspired by the herring gull and can take off, fly and land auton
From Gizmag:
The first Orion crew module has begun testing at Lockheed Martin's Space Operations Simulation Center (SOSC) in Denver, Colorado. This 41,000 square foot research facility will test the ability of NASA's next-gen multipurpose exploration spacecraft to safely fly astronauts t
From Jalopnik:
This is Orismar de Souza, a homeless man in Brazil, who decided to build the car he couldn't buy using junk, spare parts and a hammer and chisel. Four years later, the "shrimpmobile" has him back on his feet.
Read the whole article
iGPS, a manufacturer of plastic pallets, want to see federal standards to prevent fires from wooden pallets. They claim over 15 wooden pallet fires last year.
According to http://www.greatdreams.com/wildfires-2009.htm, there were 32,000 wildfires in the first 5 months of 2009. No call for congressi
Ethanol helps reduce our dependence on foreign oil, but it's not that great for those of us with classic cars. Luckily, pure-gas.org has come to the rescue with a list of 2,705 stations in 50 states that sell ethanol-free gas. Looks like there are at least two stations in Seattle and one is prett
From Wired Discoveries:
Wiffle balls are very poorly behaved. They curve wildly, practically bouncing around in midair. No surprise, given the eight holes molded into one side. But to learn how the little plastic balls twist and spin through space, the go-to researcher is Jenn Rossmann,
From Neatorama:
Believe it or not the lightweight bicycle pictured above was printed out on a computer. Designed by scientists in Bristol, England, it is created by building up layers of nylon powder through a process known as Additive Layer Manufacturing. The computer-aided design is se
From Wired Top Stories:
A collaboration between ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and filmmaker Christopher Riley hopes to show what Russian astronaut Yuri Gagarin -- the first human to go into space and orbit the planet -- saw on April 12, 1961.
Read the whole article
Nowadays, it's not necessarily a headline grabber if a Duesenberg makes a million bucks at auction, and there are a couple dozen "auctions of a lifetime" every year.
Not so in 1985, when Harrah's conducted the next-to-last of their liquidation sales and Tom Monaghan, the founder of Domino's Piz
Hi Guys, I've been lumbered with the repair of a "SMPS battery Charger" as fitted to a motorised wheelchair. It's symptons were a blown fuse. I found two large caps and the bridge rectifier were blown, and after quite a bit of work, I've come across an 8 Amp triac. on testing, it would appear that t
I have Koken Barber Chair in process of repair. I need to know if there are 'O' rings in the two grooves near bottom of the main lift cylinder. There were none present when I dismantled it. Also, the pump chamber lid (tin) has a # 186233 and under the footrest is #1493. Underside of the seat has no
What causes this?
Engine: 327 CI RPM@60MPH = 3260 Air Consumed = 8,883.5 CI/mile
Air: 13.26 CF/LB = 1728 CI/1 CF = 22,913.28 CI/LB
(13.26 x 1728 = 22,913.28)
Gasoline: 6.152 LB/Gal
Strocometric Air/Fuel ratio: 14.7 LB air: 1 LB Gasoline = 336,825.216 CI Air : 1 LB Fuel
(22,913.28 x 14.7 = 336,825.216)
Air for 1
Greetings to you all,
I have a question i would like some advise on.
I have a Press brake, the hydraulic pump and electric motor are to be changed. The old pump has an inlet port on the base of the pump, and two ports on opposite sides of the pump housing, both going to a valve block.
I am assumi
Hi guys This is Jhon from las vegas. I am new here and I would like to say to hi everybody.
I put a mpeg file from my digicam's memory card to my comp. I found out that the video doesn't play and when I try deleting the video it takes forever. Right now I have an icon of this video file (mpeg) on my desktop and I can't rename it, nor move it, nor delete it.
I have a Virus Scan active on m
I want to use natural gas for room heating because it is cheap. However, in case natural gas supply is temporarily shut down, I can use LPG instead. I can achieve this by either choosing a special design heater or choosing a 'fast convertible' conversion kit from propane to natural gas. Anyone ha
actually we have 8nos circulating pump,among them 2 nos for each 135 mw unit.whenever we stopped the circulating pumps of unit8 the valves for fibre filter damaged every time.fibre filter valve tapping taken from circulating water line valve specification:pn 10,300mm,cast body.please give possible r
So i was thinking, what if i made a helecopter, simple helecopter.
I start off with a few medal bars, weld a place for the engine and me to set at the front, leave open space then at the back i mount another engine, then set it up on something i can land on, like the real helecopters, but i want to
Paul Painter, professor of polymer science in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State, and his group have spent the past 18 months developing a technique that uses ionic liquids (salt in a liquid state) to facilitate separation.
The separation takes place at room temperatu