MachinePix Weekly #37

This week's most popular post was a snake-arm robot 🐍🤖 next week's guest... tbd!

Next week’s interview guest is… a mystery! Not because I have a big surprise or anything, but because I procrastinated on scheduling and haven’t 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 didn’t 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.

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A snake-arm robot with four degrees of freedom by Youtuber MenzMade.

I’m always looking for interesting people to interview, have anyone in mind?

—Kane

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The Week in Review

Watch these flame projectors do what they do best in this German laser and pyrotechnic show.

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X2 Wave Flamer flame projector for pyrotechnic effects by Explo.

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I genuinely had no idea that there were mobile tower cranes that folded, so this was a delight for me. Tower cranes generally “build” themselves up in segments.

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Time-lapse of folding a Spierings SK498-AT4 mobile tower crane operated by @CityLifting.

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Pssst, “bascule bridge” is just a fancy way of saying drawbridge 🌚

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Slauerhoffbrug, an automatic bascule bridge in Leeuwarden, the Netherlands.

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A controversial post, probably because the robot arms seem to lend an air of intentionality or malice to this macabre process.

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Crab processing line by the Canadian Centre for Fisheries Innovation.

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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.

Infinity of Dum @CloudZTZ99A

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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 machines—reach out.

—Kane