Collaborate Disseminate
Usually an ebike lets you know it’s an ebike the instant you see it from afar – components like a large hub motor or swollen bottom bracket give it away immediately. But try identifying the new Domestique from Monaco-based company HPS as an ebike, and … Continue reading HPS launches the lightest, sleekest ebike this side of the future
The latest addition to Lenovo’s premium X1 range is also the lightest ThinkPad so far, tipping the scales at a featherweight 1.99 lb (907 g). The X1 Nano is also one of the first to be based on Intel’s Evo platform and comes with Tiger Lake Core proces… Continue reading Lenovo launches X1 Nano, the lightest ThinkPad ever
Morfuns Bicycle started work on a lightweight folding ebike called the Éole back in December last year, which boasts a carbon fiber frame, a one-size-fits-all design, and a battery in the seatpost, a design that the company claims it was one of the fir… Continue reading Carbon fiber folding ebike designed to be an easy between-ride carry
What was once the offshoot of a Formula One team is now forging quite a separate path for itself. Williams Advanced Engineering is channeling its Formula E experience to focus quite heavily on two pillars: lightweighting and electrification, in the aut… Continue reading Williams Advanced Engineering teases low-cost lightweight composites
If you stay up to date with niche software news, your ears may recently have twitched at the release of a new programming language: V. New hobby-project programming languages are released all the time, you would correctly argue; what makes this one special? The answer is a number of design …read more
Continue reading The V Programming Language: Vain Or Virtuous?
[Makercise] is getting ready for Maker Faire. One of the things he’d really like to do is some casting demonstrations. However, he has no desire to take his expensive and heavy electric kiln based foundry to Maker Faire. So, he made his own.
He got into metal casting during his excellent work on his Gingery lathe series. He started off by modeling his plan in Fusion 360. He’d use a 16qt cook pot turned upside down as the body for his foundry. The top would be lined with ceramic fiber insulation and the lid made out of foundry cement. He …read more
