An Engineer in Wonderland – Hopping robot
Those clever robot designers at Boston Dynamics in the US, together with Sandia Labs, have created a shoe box-sized vehicle that can jump over obstacles 7m high. For military use, and intended to be...
View ArticleAn Engineer in Wonderland – Thinking microfluidics
The University of Michigan has a rather nice video of its lab-on-a-chip in operation. The remarkable thing about this hydraulic circuit is that it generates is own control signals, there are no...
View ArticleAn Engineer in Wonderland – Supercap guy replies
From Pierre Mars of CAP-XX Just responding to your comment in the blog An Engineer in Wonderland – Energy harvesting and supercapacitors. You are quite right, the final circuit would need 2 x MAX9015,...
View ArticleTwo good things make coffee cake
I present my attempt to parameterise coffee cake, which I view as a way of making two enjoyable things worse. Having drawn the graph, I feel that it is more like a graph for chocolate cake, and with...
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