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Hot Wheels Top Speed Road Vac. Regular production model on the left, unreleased prototype on the right. I struggled to capture the iridescence of the proto.
Early on in the project I assembled some vehicles at random using a Quentin WIlson's classic car book as a guide. These models took an hour or two each to put together and then perhaps another hour to scan and create textures.
The quick models are submitted and given the thumbs up or down. Sadly these three were heartily disapproved of. They wanted something more generic.
This is available for sale from an antique mall in Langley, BC. Price - $275.00 CAD. /// 10 Feb. 2017 ///
I have never seen a 1/100 scale L-1011 model in prototype livery.
Lotus Esprit Production-Intent Prototype
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pak and i designed a product. this is a picture sent to us today by the company making the prototype. if we were allowed to show you the picture without the fuzz trust me you would be as excited as we are.
A 3d printer at work. Unfortunately in this instance, the print head was clogged so it only printed the support material and not the actual thing. Oh well.
Every prototype I build has a Lego brick somewhere. Not by design, but they're just so handy. This time: their consistent size makes them ideal for leveling out the frame once I ran out of washers.
In this mock-up we are exploring how remixing code is very similar to magnetic poetry for the Hackasaurus. We could utilize the color coding system developed for the WXG to differentiate grammatical elements. Additionally, thinking of code this way allows for users to define their own rules, rather than defining lines of sequential procedural code. Here, we are thinking about how some users might approach a sentence grammatically, others visually and some might just cluster components together that they will eventually make sense of. With the magnetic poetry mechanic, there is also an element of social collaborative mentoring, where one user might assist another in ultimately developing code.
One Maker in the Jocelyn H. Lee Innovation Lab was not satisfied with the available stock motorcycle kickstand, so he designed a replacement in a 3D CAD program and iterated the design using 3D prints until the prototype gave the result he wanted. This method was much faster and cheaper than machining multiple metal prototypes.
This frame has a temporary wood seat we're using for testing. The production models will have normal seats.
This is a picture of a working prototype of the Nanospore Project. It was sitting on top of my HD receiver and powered by A/C USB adaptor.
Didn't quite satisfy with the scale of vinyl body and will be making a new sculpt. Many little things you see (fabric, string and vinyl color) will very likely be changed in the production version, but overall I'm pleased to see this project progress from concept to working prototype!
The little Nanospore vinyl figure on top was there for size reference.
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Curated by Sydney Mainster, Materials Lab Curator, and Igor Siddiqui, Assistant Professor
Photographed by Rob Winter, Materials Lab in house photographer
The lightbox prototype, with 4 RGB LEDs and a simple arduino sketch to bash bits down SPI and make it light up. This is based on part of the MeggyJr (and Peggy 2) circuit. Right now it's only using 1 LED controller to make sure I have some vague idea what I'm doing, but it's a start.
I'm not driving the LEDs with enough current. I'll fix that this weekend.
I'm sewing a shopsack clone from xpac, but before I go and mess with that hideously expansive fabric (it's vx-51; very heavy for xpac, and priced to match. It's not as expensive as cuben, but it's still expensive enough to make assembly/cutting mistakes painful) I need to make up a few out of the cordura I've got lying around from the bag old days when I made bags out of that (not even close to waterproof) fabric.
No handles on this bag yet (a heavy webbing was requested and I've not yet figured a way to bind the ends so they won't immediately fray) but I'll get around to them after I make up another prototype (the top zipper isn't working out as well as I want, so I have to revisit that design BEFORE I start taking needle to xpac.)
The Kamov Ka-25 (NATO reporting name 'Hormone') was a naval helicopter, developed for the Soviet Navy in the USSR from 1958.
In the late 1950s there was an urgent demand for anti-submarine helicopters for deployment on new ships equipped with helicopter platforms entering service with the Soviet Navy. Kamov's compact design was chosen for production in 1958. To speed the development of the new anti-submarine helicopter Kamov designed and built a prototype to prove the cabin and dynamic components layout; designated Ka-20, this demonstrator was not equipped with mission equipment, corrosion protection or shipboard operational equipment. The Ka-20 was displayed at the 1961 Tushino Aviation Day display.
Definitive prototypes of the Ka-25 incorporated mission equipment and corrosion protection for the structure. The rotor system introduced aluminium alloy blades pressurised with nitrogen for crack detection, lubricated hinges, hydraulic powered controls, alcohol de-icing and automatic blade folding. Power was supplied by two free-turbine engines sat atop the cabin, with electrically de-iced inlets, plain lateral exhausts with no Infra-Red countermeasures, driving the main gearbox directly and a cooling fan for the gearbox and hydraulic oil coolers aft of the main gearbox. Construction was of stressed skin duralumin throughout with flush-riveting, as well as some bonding and honeycomb sandwich panels. The 1.5m × 1,25m × 3.94m cabin had a sliding door to port flight deck forward of the cabin and fuel tanks underfloor filled using a pressure refueling nozzle on the port side. A short boom at the rear of the cabin had a central fin and twin toed in fins at the ends of the tailplane mainly for use during auto-rotation. The undercarriage consisted of two noncastoring mainwheels with sprag brakes attached to the fuselage by parallel 'V' struts with a single angled shock absorber to dissipate landing loads, and two castoring nosewheels on straight shock absorbing legs attached directly to the fuselage either side of the cockpit which folded rearwards to reduce interference with the RADAR, all wheels were fitted with emergency rapid inflation flotation collars. Flying controls all act on the co-axial rotors with pitch, roll and collective similar to a conventional single rotor helicopter. Yaw was through differential collective which has a secondary effect of torque, an automatic mixer box ensured that total lift on the rotors remained constant during yaw maneuvers, to improve handling during deck landings. Optional extras included fold up seats for 12 passengers, rescue hoist, external auxiliary fuel tanks or containers for cameras, flares, smoke floats or beacons.
(Text Wikipedia)