So our vacuum cleaner stopped working… and of course i had thrown away the receipt … but warranties aren’t something we take serious in this household, anyways.
It had “cut out” a few times before, but now it wouldn’t stat at all. So i cracked the thing open, after shaking it a bit, and started error searching. I tried using my multimeter to find any missing connections, but it didnt go to well.
I decided to try and short circuit the automatic wire rolling mechanism, to see if this was the problem…
The spring flew out at near the speed of light, just pass my face and cut my hand in the process. Maybe i should have anticipated that there was a large spring inside it? Since i wasn’t going to be able to fix that anyway, i cut it out of the equation, an wired around it – no luck.
The error was somewhere else. So i looked at this small board, that evidently controls the throughput to the 1600 watt motor:
One of the connections on the voltage regulator was a bit charred, so i tried wiring around the whole thing, and it seemed to work.
The board is used for receiving and decoding information from an infrared remote in the vacuum cleaner handle, and regulate the rpm’s. I don’t think it includes any kind of surge protection, so it should be good
Reassembled it, and threw away the obligatory extra 3 screws. Now it only runs on “Extremely high” suction, and the cord doesn’t coil up But it works.
… is what i want to get in a portable device. Something like Sixth sence, that we saw on TED, but not with a projector or anything, and more intuitive, like the t David Pogue roundup, also on TED.
I saw IBM patentet something they call bionic armor, but its just a piece of clothes that electrically stimulates muscles, like one of those “fitness” devices, that shocks you.
Real bionic armor could imo be 2 things:
Re-encoding your dna, maybe with some sort of Gene therapy treatment. Adding additional functions of your original genetics, such as resistance to pain, additional abilitys and what not.
Secondly, it could be some geneticly engineered substance, that could be sprayed on your body, clothes, or ingested, that would some how protect you, against chemical attacks, radiation poisoning, altering your biology to cope with any sudden environmental change, bacterial or viral attacks of all sorts. It would in some form be “alive”. Living of the energy absorbed from your body, or the atacks them selves.
Actually, it micht even be a spray on solytion of chemicals or some form of engineerd device, that spray on in powderform, and cover your body. This nano cover would be like what you have in the game crysis i imagine.
This kind of 3D imaging of productsor exhibits, is already seen to some extent on websites of major production firms. But with smaller companies popping up, and being able to deliver quality displays, at reasonable pricing, i think we will see a lot of this in the future.
Link is in danish, but the navigation is intuitive.
Today was the accumulation of 3½ years of studying, at the Engineering School of Aarhus, since i had my last examn in our bachelor project.
It went well, we got top grades, and i can now adress myself “Bsc. Mechanical Engineering”.
Our project title is: “Mechanical Properties of waterbased tapecasted stainless sintered metal”.
I’m currently diving into the area of origin of life, since i have been watching Richard Dawkings taking on religion. Hes a smart fellow, i must say, but he doenst have all the answers, and as a good scientist he does admit to it. I respect him for being true, and open minded. Here is som interesting stuff aswell:
also good: http://science.howstuffworks.com/cellular-microscopic-biology/cell1.htm
and if you are realy interested:
“Religulous”
- with Bill maher. Its about how people believe in religion, and how fundementally ridiculous it is.
“Expelled No Intelligence Allowed”
- is also quite good, mostly about how we should keep true to the scientific values, of being allowed to always question the theory, and test it. In this docu, the subject is why cant scientist postulate fx an intelligent designer, just because it is not popularly regarded as scientific “belief”? its because we are afraid of it? its just questions. are we afraid to be pprofen wrong? then we as scientists are no better than the religious fanatics…
Well i didnt know what to think, at some point though, i figured that money was just an expression for how much someone oves a bank. I didnt realy know the whole story, and i was quite surprised to find out, how our money comes to be, and how it is controlled, and how flawed this system is. It is all explained very nicely in this video:
As it turns out, banks make up money out of thin air, as intrests on loans… and as this gives:
Money in cirulation = M and Inrest = I, then obviously the system will fail eventually, as M is an expression of M+1, the value of money is: M/M+I, wich is an expponential eq. That is not good….
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