they use a circuit board. The yellow gearbox is mounted directly to the main circuit board making it into the physical spine, along with its copper traces serving as the spinal cord of the robot. While less amenable to mechanical creativity than BoxBot...
One of these is the subject of an archive film released by the oil company Shell, and it’s a fascinating journey into a technology that might have been. The Fell differential gearbox. All diesel locomotive designs struggle with the problem of transmitting the huge torque required to start a...
Let's say our car weighs 4,000 pounds (1814.369 kg), and the tires have a CRF of 0.015. The force is equal to 4,000 x 0.015, which equals 60 pounds (27.215 kg). Now let's figure out how much power that is. If you've read the HowStuffWorks article How Force, Torque, Power ...
This is good for a few different reasons: 1) ease of maintenance, 2) direct knowledge –due to the noise/vibration– of whether its on or off, and arguably the most important reason, 3) is it drives 2-1/2 lbs of weight farther forward in the fuselage.So, since I wanted to see wh...
Overall for me 3 stars is pushing it. Ride quality & brakes 2 out of 5 Suspension is way too hard for me given the current state of our British roads, harsh, jarring & very fatiguing after not very long at all. Bumpy B roads where I ride a lot in the Derbyshire Dales would ...
t embraced the change in work rules and conditions that other industries have…getting the work/life balance right is an issue of more importance to women who usually have to bear the brunt of child-rearing activities (‘Why are there so few women in aviation?’, Kathryn Creedy,CNN, 20-...
Ford has given the Ranger pick-up the Raptor treatment, but not everyone will be happy about the choice of powerplant...
The Edsel had many features that were hated by the public, starting from its push-buttons on the wheel that would make you accidentally change gears when trying to change radio stations, and up to the outer grill which made it look like "a Mercury pushing a toilet seat". Ford is...
An 18-kg child is riding a playground merry-go-round that is rotating at 35 rev/min. a. What net force is acting on her if she is standing on the merry-go-round 1.05 m from its center in newtons? The net force in this situation is...
the of and to a in that is was he for it with as his on be at by i this had not are but from or have an they which one you were all her she there would their we him been has when who will no more if out so up said what its about than into them can only other time new...