Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts
Showing posts with label engineering. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Space1 Engineering Space

SPACE1's engineered space coin
SPACE1 ENGINEERING SPACE
The Coin that Weighs Nothing!

In every instance, going into space must be engineered with reason and purpose, that of smaller, lighter, and more efficient means.

For example, a recent blog introduced the living rocket invention, where the rocket itself is alive and the components and structures have intelligence and purpose.

http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2015/02/space1-living-rocket-invention.html

A more recent blog introduced the One Year Anniversary Coin, signifying Space1's mission success throughout the year 2014 and beginning into 2015.

The coin was minted and engineered to go into space. It has small size, almost no weight (that of a few milligrams), and is made very efficient with practically no thickness. How is this accomplished?

The special space flying coin version is minted on a substrate alloy of paper and ink. This allows carrying tens or hundreds into space at one time, without deterring from original payload weight and the rocket's lofting capabilities.

The coin could be made even lighter, by transforming it into zeros and ones of computer programming language and carrying it aloft as data.

However, the weight and size of the media to hold it, while small and minuscule (as in the case of a tiny usb stick), still adds weight. However, in the case of lofting thousands of coins, the cloning of data makes the media extremely efficient.

The image can also be patterned and compressed, allowing tens of thousands of coins to be lofted in a single rocket. (see illustrations) 

In one possible promotion, the names of people going into space are placed each on a coin, and when returned from space, the coins become souvenirs from space.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Engineering with Transplastic

Showing the author's 16 pcs stockpile of Transparent Plastic in clipboard form. TP is perfect for hobbyists needing a low cost construction material to build robots, platforms, structures and supports for assorted brains. The remarkable thing about engineering transplastic is that shaping it and cutting it only requires a standard soldering iron. The shape is scribed into the board with the soldering iron and allowed to cool, then snapped to reveal the final result.
TRANSPLASTIC - TRANSPARENT PLASTIC
No drilling, no cutting - common resource material for easy construction
... The best part about finding Transplastic is it's commonly available across the world.

Engineer your own Transplastic. Clipboards are everywhere! The green transparent clipboard is an easy design material for the person who travels light with a soldering iron. It can be worked with a metal ruler straight edge - just scribe a hot line with the soldering iron into the plastic and break off at the scribed line when cooled. This is an easy way to readily construct robotic parts and platforms etc. by using commonly available resources, especially since clipboards are very low cost and found in varying sizes. For example, the BSS Basic Stamp Supercomputer used clipboard construction. For hobbyists on a shoestring budget, it's an ideal low cost material.

Here's some advantages of working with TransPlastic
  • low cost
  • commonly available
  • cuts and drills with a common soldering iron
  • form bends with heat
  • easy reinforced with layering and air-crafting
  • light weight
  • structurally strong enough to support most peripherals
  • ideal for mounting tabs, platforms, extensions, housings
  • has insulation abilities
  • can act as partitions, shields and full enclosures
  • see-though enables viewing LEDs, power & data monitoring
  • works with CaS cells
For a reference of working with clipboards in a hobby application, refer to the BSS BASIC Stamp Supercomputer construction. This project uses clip boards as construction platforms for the tower, crown, and platform base.

http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2013/06/basic-stamp-supercomputer.html

The SEED Basic Stamp Supercomputer uses clipboards for the crown and supporting base.

http://humanoidolabs.blogspot.tw/2012/07/seed-supercomputer.html

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