Posted October 30, 2018. Of course the doll needs a racing helmet and racing suit! With a sewing machine and 3D printer you can make your own “Mini-Eva” engineering action figure complete with racing suit and helmet. All needed files, patterns and instructions are found below. It will fit Barbie® and similar fashion dolls. Who… Continue reading Make helmet and racing suit for Barbie®!
Category: Green Envy
Meet the “KiWieel”
Posted October 14, 2018. Meet the “KiWieel” – our first demo model of the new non-pneumatic tire design. Finite element analysis shows it is good for 500+ MPH (800 km/h). 🙂 Meeting a rubber manufacturer tomorrow that will help me find the best rubber compound, and I am very excited. Note, the wheel section is… Continue reading Meet the “KiWieel”
Great evening at Mechanical Engineering Group Auckland
Posted 5 August, 2018. *Phew* I held a technology packed, marathon presentation, and crammed through 94 powerpoint slides in 1.5 hr at the Mechanical Engineering Group Auckland past Thursday! I think that may be a record of mine. There are so many stories to tell about the KillaJoule design and build, but I could only… Continue reading Great evening at Mechanical Engineering Group Auckland
We are re-inventing the wheel!
The weakest link in all wheel-driven speed record attempts is a surprising and obscure detail – tires! Tires can be one of the main points of failure on all vehicles, but are specifically troublesome on extremely high speed, wheel-driven vehicles. Therefore, we are literally re-inventing the wheel for Green Envy! The very fastest cars are… Continue reading We are re-inventing the wheel!
A first glimpse of Green Envy
Posted June 8, 2018 The design work for the Green Envy is moving along! Here is the first glimpse of it, and it is starting to look like a streamliner (note that the sidecar wheel is not yet added, Green Envy will be a sidecar motorcycle just like KillaJoule). I really wanted to include myself… Continue reading A first glimpse of Green Envy
We are changing color – from red to green! Meet “Green Envy”!
“Green Envy” is the successor of KillaJoule. It will be a battery-powered, streamliner, sidecar motorcycle and it will look very much like the KillaJoule. However, there will be some major differences. First off, Green Envy will – of course – be green instead of red. It will also have two or three times the power,… Continue reading We are changing color – from red to green! Meet “Green Envy”!
RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL!
The weakest link in all wheel-driven speed record attempts is a surprising and obscure detail – tires! Tires can be one of the main points of failure on all vehicles, but are specifically troublesome on extremely high speed, wheel-driven vehicles. Therefore, we are literally re-inventing the wheel for Green Envy! The very fastest cars are… Continue reading RE-INVENTING THE WHEEL!