Collaborate Disseminate
We’re starting off the week with a mechanical marvel: a homemade dragster with dual Rolls-Royce jet engines that’s been 17 years in the making – and could potentially hit 400 mph.Continue ReadingCategory: Automotive, TransportTags: High-speed, Drag Rac… Continue reading Will the home-built Insanity jet-powered dragster hit 400 mph?
Conventional helicopters have a built-in speed limit, imposed by the physical limitations of their top-rotor lift systems. This fascinating Airbus project has found a way to break through that speed limit, and it’s already done it in flight testing.Con… Continue reading High-speed helicopter breaks through single top rotor speed record
We’ve covered the Tiny Tapeout project a few times on these pages, and while getting your digital IC design out there onto actual silicon for a low cost is super …read more Continue reading Open Source High Speed SiGe IC Production For Free!
Almost all entry-level physics courses, and even some well into a degree program, will have the student make some assumptions in order to avoid some complex topics later on. Most …read more Continue reading Remote-Controlled Hypercar Slices Through Air
The operational amplifier, or op amp, is one of the most basic building blocks used in analog circuits. Ever since single-chip op amps were introduced in the 1960s, thousands of …read more Continue reading From Nanoamps to Gigahertz: The World’s Most Extreme Op Amps
Forget your friendly little electric air taxis. The US Air Force wants to take things up a notch with a new generation of high-speed vertical takeoff and landing aircraft. Thirty five designs are about to be presented, here’s a sneak peek at the ones w… Continue reading US Air Force set to showcase 35 high-speed VTOL aircraft concepts
Man stands next to car and talks about it: it’s a video format you’ve seen a thousand times. It does hit a bit different, though, when the guy’s own name is on the back of the car. Christian Von Koenigsegg is one of a very short list of people who have… Continue reading Mr. Koenigsegg thrashes the Jesko “megacar” and its remarkable gearbox
Placing two motors together in a shared drive is a simple enough task. By using something like a chain or a belt to couple them, or even placing them on …read more Continue reading Differential Drive Doesn’t Quite Work As Expected
A lot of us have nostalgia for our childhood toys, and as long as they’re not something like lawn darts that nostalgia often leads to fun upgrades since some of us are adults with industrial-sized air compressors. Classics like Super …read more
If you play with high speed design for long enough, eventually you’re going to run into clock skew and other weird effects. [Robert Feranec] recently ran into this problem and found an interesting solution to visualizing electric fields in a PCB.
A word of warning before we dig into this, …read more