‘Lego’ R/C BlockCar: A Knockoff You Can’t Help But Love [R/c]

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108 bricks. 4 wheels. 2 taillights. Questionable plastics that are sure to contain countless carcinogens. Yes, the BlockCar looks to be a fantastic toy.

While not an official Lego product, the BlockCar offers the same general idea. You carefully stack bricks onto a motorized platform, crafting the multicolored car of your deepest imagination. Admire it for a few moments. Then smash it at full speed against the wall to watch your work crumble. (Repeat as necessary.)

I really wish the BlockCar were an official, Lego-compatible add-on because a 4-wheel R/C platform (with taillights!) could make pretty much any Lego creation that much more menacing. Luckily, it's a pretty attainable one-off at $22. [Strapya World via technabob]


Cooling Tower Capacity

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Dear All,

For my factory I had purchased 50 TR water chiller. Its in and out temperature will be maximum 5 degree centigrade. To cool the chiller will be need a cooling tower.

But I can not calculated which capacity of the Cooling tower to cool the condenser of the chiller.

Plea

First Official NASA iPhone Game Is Science Fiction [IPhone App]

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NASA has released their first iPhone game. It's called the NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator and, instead of making me happierer than a kid in a candy store wearing a Batman cape, reading the description makes me sad:

Welcome to the NASA Lunar Electric Rover (LER) Simulator. You don't need a driver's license, but you still need to buckle up as the LER Simulator gives you a glimpse of what it might be like to support the activities of a functioning Lunar Outpost. Get busy. You never know if your skills here will become a major part of the NASA Astronaut application process in the future.

Sadly, and since there are not going to be any NASA mission to the moon, we know that these skills would be useless. Unless that, by "NASA Lunar Electric Rover Simulator" they really mean "Soyuz Spacecraft Push Some Russian Buttons Simulator."

In any case, go to the App Store and enjoy the free game, because the real thing is not going to happen. [iTunes via Krapps]


Valve Actuation

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Hi,

I have an application that involves a C-pump and a pneumatically actuated valve. The whole idea behind the project is of as follows:

1) When the C-pump loses prime or when the pressure falls below a certain pressure (<80 psi), this action should actually trigger a pneuma

P91 PWHT

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Heating and cooling rate shall be 220ºC/Hr Maximum" and the ranges of the temperature "675ºC to 690ºC ASME I" and "700ºC to 760ºC ASME B31.1"

For which reason, for the same material (P91, 9%Cr 1% Mo ) PWHT's temperatures change depending on the used code?

Gas Compression Station

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In designing compressor station, 1+1 configuration with one stage of compression as an example, considering common suction drum instead of separate drums for each train can be proposed as an idea. a benfit of this idea is lower design pressure of suction drum due to movement of shut down valve from

MATLAB Simulink

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hi frnds........

i want to replace pid with fuzzy in a closed loop,but for tat i need a closed loop system with pid(can be speed control) which shud give result in matlab simulation.

my problem which resist me frm dng this is,we all knw tat for any closed loop we need subtracto

Japanese Fashion Designer Uses Cables To Knit Art [Art]

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I've knitted a few scarves in my lifetime, and have a cupboard full of cables, so I'm thinking of whipping up a few winter-warmers like Japanese fashion designer Kosuke Tsumura. Though it doesn't look nearly as soft as merino wool...

He used anything from iPods to LAN cables, power boards and fabrics to create sculptures for his 'MODE less CODE' exhibition at the Nanzuka gallery in Shirokane, Tokyo. But can he do the Kitchener Stitch? [Japan Trends via Katiesol]


Palm webOS 1.4 Update to Hit on the 25th, Bring Video Recording and New Speeds [WebOS]

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It failed to materialize on the 15th, but now PreCentral's claiming the 25th will see the webOS 1.4 update come good. This is a firmware update worth writing in your diary about, bringing video recording and Flash 10.1 compatibility.

It'll also make the Pre and Pixi slightly faster, and have a few other minor changes not worth explaining. Here's hoping you've got something interesting to film come Thursday, even if it's just of an iPhone user struggling with their meager non-flash 3.0-megapixel camera. [PreCentral]


More Fun Than Unfollowing, Now You Can Sh*t On Twitter With the Bird Turd iPhone App [IPhone Apps]

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There's a million and one Twitter apps available for the iPhone, but do any let you do a poo on tweets you dislike? Surprisingly, yes—and here I was thinking teenage roughnecks couldn't afford an iPhone contract.

Bird Turd turns Twitter into a game, with the official bio of the app explaining

"In Bird Turd, YOU are the bird. And when you see a tweet you don‘t like, YOU CAN POOP RIGHT ON IT."

Anything that lets me express some rage against the "SEO gurus" who follow me wins my vote, and 99 cents is a lot cheaper than a therapy session. Sold! [Bird Turd on the App Store via Mobile-Ent]


iPad Video Showing Flash Rendered Perfectly Reappears On Apple Site [Apple]

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I'm sure someone at Apple has scars on their hands from the major wrist-slapping that's occurred over their video cock-up of the iPad running Flash—but how could they make the same mistake again?

When Apple announced the iPad, you may remember some of their promotional videos showed the tablet running Flash on the NY Times website. They quickly rectified the problem—which was never explained fully, so we still don't know if they were filming a prototype that did actually have Flash, or if they deliberately added it in to stir hype—but according to a Macrumors reader, the video showing Flash has returned. The original video caused the FTC to receive complaints about the false advertising, which isn't the first time they've been hit with that criticism.

Watching the video now, it's reverted back to the non-Flash enabled version, which just shows broken plug-in icons on the NY Times site. I wouldn't suggest reading anything into this video, but it's pretty surprising they could somehow accidentally switch the videos around again. What's going on, Apple? And how can I get my eight minutes back, spent re-watching that bloody promo video again? [Macrumors]