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Rolls-Royce Reflects
ROLLS-ROYCE REFLECTS ON ITS PINNACLE PRODUCT
TO MARK 118TH ANNIVERSARY
Rolls-Royce Motor Cars celebrates the 118th anniversary of the historic first meeting between Henry Royce and The Hon. Charles Stewart Rolls – which took place on 4 May 1904The company they founded together created ‘the best car in the world’, a position still occupied today by the marque’s productsPhantom, Rolls-Royce’s…
My mom’s cat Indy likes the PVC pipe bunk beds
Cat treat slot machine build in 60ish seconds!
Thanks to everyone taking on the projects in the book and getting back to me with questions! I made a video to help address some of the common questions regarding the large fountain.
Slide in Bingham Canyon Mine
The Bingham Canyon mine in Utah is, by volume, the largest open pit mine in the world. It has produced a huge amount of material, most notably copper, but also silver, gold, and molybdenum – in fact, it accounts for all nearly all of those materials produced in the entire state of Utah. In 2013, the mine suffered a major collapse which interrupted production for about 3 years. On May 31, a smaller portion of the walls of that mine collapsed, as seen in these press photographs.
Some mining activities in the portion of the mine are likely to be disrupted, but the company that operates this mine has for years managed the oversteepened walls of the mine by proactively monitoring the site for motion that could indicate a developing hazard. As was the case in the large slide in 2013, all workers were evacuated from this area before the slide occurred.
-JBB
Image credit: Fox 13
Reference:
https://blogs.agu.org/lan…/2021/06/04/2021-bingham-canyon/
https://www.sltrib.com/…/06/02/another-slide-disrupts/
Strategies for Retaining Female Engineers
Women earned 49 percent of allscience and engineering bachelor’s degrees, 43 percent of science and engineering master’s degrees and 40 percent of science and engineering doctoral degrees in 2014, reports the National Student Clearinghouse. Yet women make up less than 25 percent of the STEM workforce and only 10.5 percent of employed engineers. Researchers have found that workplace culture and women’s personal character traits play major roles in retention. So what are the things that make a difference?
Women prefer workplaces that are collaborative rather than hierarchical, explains Heather Metcalf, director of research and analysis at the Association for Women in Science. And they are more apt to stay in work environments that allow for creativity and flexibility, she says.
Conversely, women are fleeing companies that encourage employees to practically live at work, she says. While 71 percent of women with young children work outside the home, according to the Pew Research Center, women still shoulder more responsibility for child care and elder care than men. So living at the office to show they are committed to their jobs is not an option.
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A World of Help for Women Software Engineers
The career path of a woman in tech, Kunche thinks, can be lonely. “Sometimes being in a room full of men whether it’s at work or a in a classroom can make you feel like the odd one out, as though you don’t belong there,” she says. “It is important for women to know that they are not alone.”
That’s why, around the world, women software engineers have started all sorts of local organizations to support each other. Finding one of these organizations has mostly been a matter of word of mouth or surfing the web; Kunche found out about the Washington, D.C., group through a listing on Meetup.com.
Kunche decided she could help bring women in tech together simply by making it easier to find these support groups.
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She’s put them together into an interactive map; you can zoom in to a community, browse the available groups, and click through to their individual web sites for more information. (If you know of an organization that isn’t yet on the map, you can report it to her here.)
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Exoskeleton Could Quell the Tremors of Parkinson’s Disease Patients at Crucial Moments
Parkinson’s disease brings on the shakes, and these tremors often get worse as the disease progresses. To prevent this symptom from interfering with patients’ daily lives, researchers in London have devised a clever arm exoskeleton that recognizes actions that require fine motor control, like lifting a cup or pointing, and turns on to suppress the tremors at those crucial moments.
It’s quite early days for this experimental device, which was discussed at the IEEE Body Sensor Network meeting earlier this month. But the researchers intend to develop their prototype to help patients with Parkinson’s, as well as people with essential tremor.
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Ohio State’s Electric Motorcycle Takes On a Punishing Mountain Course
This year an all-student electric motorcycle team from Ohio State University, hoped to set a new course record at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb in Pikes Peak, Colorado, with their Buckeye Current bike. The challenging course rises a punishing 1,440 meters over just a 20-kilometer course, and that meant the bike’s design had to tradeoff delivering power and storing energy. The team chose to give priority to power so that they could tackle tight turns and blaze up the hill, storing just enough to get up the hill. (They decided they would walk the bike down afterwards, if they had to.)
During the four days leading up to the race, the team ran head on into several last-minute engineering crises, including a burned out noisemaker—required of all e-vehicles, so that errant pedestrians could hear them coming. The fix: an $8 car alarm.
More serious was the tendency of the motor to cut out, which forced the professionl driver, Rob “The Bullet” Barber, to reset the system. The initial fix was a workaround circuit, but when the power cutouts became more frequent the team realized they had a fundamental problem, traced to a failure of the inverter, which turns the battery’s direct current to the alternating kind. Two days before the race was to be held, the bike would not start—and the vendor of the inverter was deep into the weekend on the other side of the world.
The team pulled yet another all-nighter, found the culprit—a circuit that had been misaligned and whose fuses had thus blown out—and repaired the damage. On Saturday, they got the bike working at full capacity at a local track. Twelve hours later they brought the bike to the base of the mountain.
Watch the bike and action and find out how it finished the race in this video.
Read More: Day One at Pikes Peak Motorcycle Race With Ohio State’s Electric Motorcycle
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Take a Rare Tour of the LEGO Production Facility in Denmark
As far as factory tours go, the LEGO Inside Tour at the LEGO production facility in Billund, Denmark exists in a league of its own.
Assuming that you can grab a spot on one of the four scheduled LEGO Inside Tour weekend dates that take place in May and June of each year, the price per person is DKK 14.500 – approximately $2,200 – not including travel expenses. Granted, the in-depth tour does include a two-night stay at Hotel LEGOLAND, but for those that simply want to see some juicy injection molding action, this factory tour is best left to diehard LEGO fans.
It’s no wonder, then, that the LEGO legal and marketing crew has prohibited any filming inside of the facility during the lengthy tour – which includes everything from meeting with LEGO designers and a step-by-step walkthrough of the production process to a visit down LEGO Memory Lane. Thankfully, the company made the rare exception for self-described “prolific LEGO Technic builder” Pawel “Sariel” Kmiec of the YouTube channel Sariel’s LEGO Workshop and let him record the tour for the rest of us schmucks to enjoy.
At nearly 20 minutes, this comprehensive armchair tour of where it all began is the perfect way to cap the end of the week:
How the GyroGlove Steadies Hands of Parkinson’s Patients
When he was a 24-year-old medical student living in London, Faii Ong was assigned to care for a 103-year-old patient who suffered from Parkinson’s, the progressive neurological condition that affects a person’s ease of movement. After watching her struggle to eat a bowl of soup, Ong asked another nurse what more could be done to help the woman. “There’s nothing,” he was grimly told.
GyroGlove’sdesign is simple. It uses a miniature, dynamically adjustable gyroscope, which sits on the back of the hand, within a plastic casing attached to the glove’s material. When the device is switched on, the battery-powered gyroscope whirs to life. Its orientation is adjusted by a precession[sic] hinge and turntable, both controlled by a small circuit board, thereby pushing back against the wearer’s movements as the gyroscope tries to right itself.
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EDIBLE ART FROM A ROBOT PANCAKE PRINTER - Hackaday
In case you didn’t know it, pancake art is a thing. People are turning out incredible edible artwork using squeeze bottles and pancake batter. But even if you’re not terribly artistic, you can still amaze your breakfast buddies withthis robotic pancake printer.
At its simplest – and in our opinion its most impressive – pancake art involves making patterns with thin batter on a hot griddle. The longer the batter is cooked, the darker it becomes, and art happens. To capitalize on this, [Trent], [Kevin], [Sunny] and [Isaac] built a 2-axis gantry with a working area the size of an electric griddle. A bottle is pressurized with a small air pump and controlled by a solenoid valve to serve as a batter extruder, and an Arduino controls everything. Custom pancake design software lets you plan your next masterpiece before committing it to batter.
