Exploring a Mysterious Plasma Effect in a High-Speed Jet of Water
Did you know that a jet of water hitting a glass surface with create an arc of plasma?
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Making an Impressive Working Robotic Arm from Cardboard
Watch this working robotic arm being built from little more than cardboard and medical syringes.
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Lowriders Are a Perfect Mesh of Engineering and Craftsmanship
Almost everything on these lowriders have been customized, from hand embroider on the seats to the insane hydraulics systems.
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Weekend Watch: This Hydraulic Press Channel Is Crushing It
“Under so much force, just about everything eventually starts to behave like a liquid, or at least some sort of putty.”
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These Kids Built an Exoskeleton to Lift 400 Pounds
These are students at the Bay School of San Francisco, and the makers of AJAX, a hydraulic exoskeleton that looks like something from a movie.
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Boston Dynamic’s Cheetah Robot Can Now Outrun Usain Bolt
This is the latest video from Boston Dynamics, the company famous for creating the dynamically stable quadruped Big Dog. Just six months ago, we saw this Cheetah robot run at 18mph, crushing the previous speed record of 13.1mph, which was set at MIT in 1989. This time, it’s running at 28.3mph; quick enough, in fact, to overtake […]
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Experiments in Garden Hose Hydraulics
Dave Sharp of the Hive76 hackerspace has been playing around with garden hose hydraulics, and the result is rather cool: The pressure in your typical garden hose is nominally around 40 psi or so, so my first hydraulic cylinder should be able to develop about 125 pounds of force if it had really good seals. […]
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