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Roller coasters are not only great fun to ride, they’re also fascinating pieces of engineering. Building your own full-size coaster is sadly beyond most people’s means, so the average enthusiast …read more Continue reading How to Make a Model Roller Coaster Without Any Moving Parts
Although few people would describe roller coasters as boring, they can get a bit “samey” over time if you always ride the same one. That’s where ROCO comes in, as it lets users create their own unique virtual roller coaster ride, every time they use it… Continue reading ROCO lets users create their own virtual roller coaster rides
[Jared Holladay] is a computer engineering student at the University of Cincinnati and a life-long roller coaster fanatic. A lot of people look at roller coasters as an exciting example …read more Continue reading The Safest Model Roller Coaster
Good news from Jezero crater as the Mars rover Perseverance manages to accomplish for the first time what it was sent to do: collect and cache core samples from rocks. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: September 5, 2021
Rollercoasters are great fun if you can deal with the exhilaration without throwing up or otherwise screaming until you pass out. Of course, the big outdoors ones are a little …read more Continue reading 3D Printed Roller Coaster Looks Pretty Darn Fun
Additive manufacturing has come a long way, but surely we’re not at the point where we can 3D-print a roller coaster, right? It turns out that you can, as long as 1/25th scale is good enough for you.
Some people build model railroads, but [Matt Schmotzer] has always had a thing for roller coasters. Not content with RollerCoaster Tycoon, [Matt] decided to build an accurate and working model of Invertigo, a boomerang coaster at King’s Park, the coaster nirvana in Cincinnati, Ohio. Covering a sheet of plywood and standing about 3′ tall, [Matt]’s model recreates the original in painstaking …read more
Building a marble run has long been on my project list, but now I’m going to have to revise that plan. In addition to building an interesting track for the orbs to traverse, [Jack Atherton] added custom sound effects triggered by the marble.
I ran into [Jack] at Stanford University’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics booth at Maker Faire. That’s a mouthful, so they usually go with the acronym CCRMA. In addition to his project there were numerous others on display and all have a brief write-up for your enjoyment.
[Jack] calls his project Leap the Dips …read more
Try not to eat a funnel cake right before you get on. Continue reading Six Flags Is Pairing Virtual Reality Headsets With Real Rollercoasters
