Typically, the only sound that physically levitates objects is the scream from your vocal cords beating against the screen when that thin-extrude doesn’t work. Perhaps there’s another way to use soundwaves to manipulate geometry? Scientists at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are successfully using an acoustic levitator to develop pharmaceuticals. Using the device originally developed by NASA to simulate microgravity conditions, the team is suspending individual droplets of solutions to ensure it stays in an amorphous state. How could this be applied to CAD?
Hey, we haven’t done one of these in a while! What’s going on in Crowdfundland? Brilliant ideas? Or Annoying ones? We probably only notice the brilliant ones, because Kickstarter filters search results to prevent the unsuccessful campaigns from appearing. Hey Google indexes the internet so I only get the most ‘cited’ pages out there. Same goes for KS. I don’t really want to see the unsuccessful ones, unless they’re gems (thanks, Blogosphere!).
Rapid Manufacturing of bio-compatible materials is taking off in a big way. If researchers aren’t developing new ways to use a Reprap to create veins or printing prothetics beaks for Bald Eagles, they’re exploring avenues to perfect the art of making organs. Is this a harbinger for things to come? We hope so. Hey Solidworks, we want features for parametric organs in SW 2014!
The first episode of Tech4PD is up at engineering.com. Your hosts? Jim Brown of Tech-Clarity and Chad Jackson of Lifecycle Insights. They pose a topic of the century, debate over it, (kick each other under the table) and give you the opportunity to vote for who’s right. The loser eats wasabi (off the shaved chest of a rabid raccoon… we hope) and is then revived for the next show.
The buzzing lights among the trees glistened on the glowing brook. Green beads and hair of white passed just beneath the branch. She had arrived and just beyond the mounds, the ships she would soon lay to waste were loading these links. Adam S. Doyle – This is how you make a few brush strokes…
