Comments for IOTD @ Patrick Andrews

Comment on #2362: BladeBoard by Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 24 May 2013 13:30:54 +0000

Yep you got me on the need for counter-rotation

I’m not sure I understand your second point. Aren’t chips of all kinds pretty expensive? If they were dirt cheap, you could have a magazine of them and fire them in and out, just as they were about to die from overheating.

Comment on #2362: BladeBoard by rob tillaart

rob tillaart — Fri, 24 May 2013 05:58:45 +0000

Cool!
in practice a motherboard (which is a rectangle) should have 2 “fan-boards” that rotate CW & CCW to prevent your laptop spinning.
design = [OO]

What about passive cooling? The chips are so small you can make many redundant components and if one gets hot the laptop switches to a similar cool unit?

Comment on #1724: EvenEvent by London 2012 Olympic inventions: Racing lines | Metro News

London 2012 Olympic inventions: Racing lines | Metro News — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:35:27 +0000

[...] If you’d like to see a novel, fairer, track geometry (albeit too late for these games, perhaps even for the ones after this) it can be appreciated here. [...]

Comment on #2038: SkinSchemes by London 2012 Olympic inventions: Rainbolympics | Metro News

London 2012 Olympic inventions: Rainbolympics | Metro News — Tue, 21 May 2013 10:28:26 +0000

[...] design idea for the Olympics of the future would be related to an invention I’ve already written about. My suggestion was to paint vehicles in the bright spectrum of the computer graphics used to [...]

Comment on #2358: LeverLoader by rob tillaart

rob tillaart — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:28:36 +0000

wrt plant
Why not make the counterweight also a water reservoir. weight is weight, why not useful?
Could it be made so that when the plant is dry and the balance tips over that the plant get water?

Comment on #2358: LeverLoader by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 20 May 2013 10:15:11 +0000

Here is an example of similar thinking: http://www.gizmodo.co.uk/2013/05/an-unsettling-reminder-to-water-your-plants/ WDITOT?

Comment on #2358: LeverLoader by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 18 May 2013 13:58:07 +0000

I was inspired by some guy I saw who was carrying a whole tent + other camping gear in one side and nothing much in the other. The effect was an odd wobbling motion. Maybe we could pump the water from side to side to optimise cornering?

Comment on #2358: LeverLoader by rob tillaart

rob tillaart — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:54:51 +0000

As you always need to take some water with you, why not make two communicating watertanks, that compensates balance automatically. Just like in big ships. With a small pump one can do miracles

Comment on #2000: SparseSpars by Patrick

Patrick — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:47:35 +0000

I just discovered this similar, but later, design http://www.fastcodesign.com/1672445/11-of-the-worlds-hottest-bikes?partner=newsletter#9

Comment on #2351: Campons by Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 11 May 2013 14:58:22 +0000

I do like the idea of having the cam angle determined automatically by the degree of slip. A cellphone accelerometer would be sensitive enough to do the detecting, I reckon.