This is part of my Brief Guide To Brakes series - a result of my research for Edinsolar, the University of Edinburgh's solar vehicle team. HOW IT WORKS • a band is wrapped part round a rotating drum • Pulling or pushing a lever creates tension in the band • the difference in tension between … Continue reading Band Brakes
Ausco Lambert Disc Brakes
This is part of my Brief Guide To Brakes series - a result of my research for Edinsolar, the University of Edinburgh's solar vehicle team. HOW IT WORKS • 2 flat rings have conical ‘divots’ (small holes) on one side of them and brake pad material on the other • The 2 rings placed together … Continue reading Ausco Lambert Disc Brakes
Brief Guide To Types Of Brakes
INTRODUCTION So I am in the mechanical team of Edinsolar - the University of Edinburgh's solar vehicle and I have spent this semester primarily focusing on the brake design. Although I have had a vague interest in the workings of tyres as I investigated them while designing tread patterns for my OneStep project, I had … Continue reading Brief Guide To Types Of Brakes
UK School STEM Competition Directory
Science Technology Engineering & Maths (STEM) The list of STEM competitions, events and awards available to pre-university students in the UK. If you know of any that I have not included in the list then comment and let me know! I am hoping to update soon to include tags on the competitions if they are … Continue reading UK School STEM Competition Directory
I Reserve The Right To Be A Real Person
A TALE OF PERSONAL BRANDING A friend and developing businessman wrote a post a while ago on his blog questioning the purpose of social networks and it got me wondering too - are we going to so much effort purely in the hope it will help employers pick us? We've all heard the story of … Continue reading I Reserve The Right To Be A Real Person
Introducing…. Flatmate Platform
THE BASICS So this is my undeveloped idea for an app and website that I currently just unimaginatively named the Flatmate Platform. It is made of two halves: one for people when they're currently sharing their living spaces with those wonderful special people known as housemates or flatmates; one for people when they're looking for … Continue reading Introducing…. Flatmate Platform
Fictional Things Now Fact
Okay so are actually also a lot of things that we can actually build that we used to portray in fiction in general popular culture that for a very long time we would laugh at and secretly wish we could actually build and own for ourselves. Actually thanks to a combination of lots of clever … Continue reading Fictional Things Now Fact
‘The Genius Of The Place’
The Genius Of The Place is the name of the project that I have long been thinking about but I know I will never get the time or money to develop. The idea would be collecting and tagging every piece of artwork that directly portrays that particular place, preferably cataloging time and date as well, … Continue reading ‘The Genius Of The Place’
How To Engineer Iconic Sci-Fi / Fantasy
So after writing a while ago about my daydreams to build the mechanical owl Bubo from Clash of the Titans I wondered what other iconic 'objects' in fiction could actually possibly be built and was there any evidence of this? There is lot of discussion out there about fiction predicting future technology in a kind … Continue reading How To Engineer Iconic Sci-Fi / Fantasy
Thank You For The (Unidentified) Music
When I was a lot younger I never liked music. In fact I classed music lessons in school as a nightmarish an experience as gymnastics or really long assemblies where I'd get pins and needles in my legs. I look it in hindsight (and I explained to those close to me who were completely bewildered … Continue reading Thank You For The (Unidentified) Music
Blue Pigeons 