MachinePix Weekly #37
This week's most popular post was a snake-arm robot šš¤ next week's guest... tbd!
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Next weekās interview guest isā¦ a mystery! Not because I have a big surprise or anything, but because I procrastinated on scheduling and havenāt confirmed anyone just yet (also why this issue is late). Stay tuned.
The most popular post this week was snake-arm robot by MenzMade. I didnāt know this until I looked it up, but snake-arm robot is an accepted technical name for a slender hyper-redundant manipulator or (my personal favorite) continuum robot.
Iām always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?
āKane
The Week in Review
Watch these flame projectors do what they do best in this German laser and pyrotechnic show.
I genuinely had no idea that there were mobile tower cranes that folded, so this was a delight for me. Tower cranes generally ābuildā themselves up in segments.
Pssst, ābascule bridgeā is just a fancy way of saying drawbridge š
A controversial post, probably because the robot arms seem to lend an air of intentionality or malice to this macabre process.
Postscript
Giggling this week at this diagram of a modern M1 Abrams main battle tank turret on a WWII-era M4 Sherman medium tank hull for scale.
If you enjoyed this newsletter, forward it to friends (and interesting enemies). I am always looking to connect with interesting people and learn about interesting machinesāreach out.
āKane