I had an inside on this...shoulda bought stock six months ago when these people came to my school and did a presentation on their new heart. I was just there to run the video equipment, these guys didn't know they needed some additional equipment to run a video, so I stayed around to run the videos and stuff.
One of the most interesting things about it was how the power is supplied. There is an inductive paddle inside which transfers power to the internal lithium-ion battery from the belt battery pack. They said you could take the battery belt off and the heart would run for about 2.5 hours on internal power. At this point a lot of people began snickering, because this is a laptop school and people were drawing parallels. In any case, I got to handle a few interesting parts.
Actually, the stock hasn't jumped incredibly yet, so it might still be a good idea to grab some shares....
Yay Rose! Yay Solar Phantom! Yay Drew, Q, Dan, Barton, and ya'll.
Rose-Hulman will be #1 this year in the challenge. The last time, cloudy weather made Rose come in third overall (and with some aerodynamic problems on the tail). But on the single sunny day, the Phantom kicked some serious butt. I wish I could be down in Chi-town to send off my buds, but I don't even have an intact car at the moment, let alone a solar one! So I'm stuck in Green Bay. I'll be keeping track of the stats.
Right now I have a Zip drive, a scanner, and a printer daisy-chained off my laptop parallel port. Yes, they all work like that (I wouldn't try using them at the same time though). At school this year I had a 486DX2/66 with a 4G drive in an old HP scanner network module (these are just big enough to hold a motherboard, hard drive, and three cards). It runs Slackware of course. This year I had several LEDs, one of which ran across the room to the partially disassembled peephole. A simple shell script let me use fetchmail to tell if I had email from down the hall. Last year I hacked a Nintendo R.O.B. and mounted a webcam on it, attached limit switches that interrupted the signal that was making it move in that direction. With a couple simple CGI scripts it was a robotic webcam. One day it received over 12% of all hits within my school's domain, more than the school's main page!
By the way I'm a double-E at Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech, great school. Check it out if you think you're smart, and still have the chance to go to school. I chose it over MIT and Cal Tech.
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I had an inside on this...shoulda bought stock six months ago when these people came to my school and did a presentation on their new heart. I was just there to run the video equipment, these guys didn't know they needed some additional equipment to run a video, so I stayed around to run the videos and stuff.
One of the most interesting things about it was how the power is supplied. There is an inductive paddle inside which transfers power to the internal lithium-ion battery from the belt battery pack. They said you could take the battery belt off and the heart would run for about 2.5 hours on internal power. At this point a lot of people began snickering, because this is a laptop school and people were drawing parallels. In any case, I got to handle a few interesting parts.
Actually, the stock hasn't jumped incredibly yet, so it might still be a good idea to grab some shares....
Yay Rose! Yay Solar Phantom! Yay Drew, Q, Dan, Barton, and ya'll.
Rose-Hulman will be #1 this year in the challenge. The last time, cloudy weather made Rose come in third overall (and with some aerodynamic problems on the tail). But on the single sunny day, the Phantom kicked some serious butt. I wish I could be down in Chi-town to send off my buds, but I don't even have an intact car at the moment, let alone a solar one! So I'm stuck in Green Bay. I'll be keeping track of the stats.
Good luck, Solar Phantom Team.
> CO2 melts at -55 Celsius.
No, CO2 melts at -55 Celsius at one atmosphere.
Right now I have a Zip drive, a scanner, and a printer daisy-chained off my laptop parallel port. Yes, they all work like that (I wouldn't try using them at the same time though). At school this year I had a 486DX2/66 with a 4G drive in an old HP scanner network module (these are just big enough to hold a motherboard, hard drive, and three cards). It runs Slackware of course. This year I had several LEDs, one of which ran across the room to the partially disassembled peephole. A simple shell script let me use fetchmail to tell if I had email from down the hall. Last year I hacked a Nintendo R.O.B. and mounted a webcam on it, attached limit switches that interrupted the signal that was making it move in that direction. With a couple simple CGI scripts it was a robotic webcam. One day it received over 12% of all hits within my school's domain, more than the school's main page!
By the way I'm a double-E at Rose-Hulman Inst. of Tech, great school. Check it out if you think you're smart, and still have the chance to go to school. I chose it over MIT and Cal Tech.