| session | tags | technologies | materials | studied aim | comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug '23 | track arc |
Onshape, hot air | PVC | Curving a pipe to specific profile (2D) | |
| Jul '23 | bogey |
Onshape, laser cut | plywood, aluminum | Bogey / track interface, rolling qualities | ⭐️⭐️ video available |
| Jun '23 | track |
CAD, 3D printing | carbon fibre, aluminum | Rigidity of track arcs |
Demo
To have a miniature (roughly 1:10) monorail track, running in a park.
- Able to walk under it
- Remote controlled
- With switches
- With at least one station
Learning
Each of the sessions tackles some uncertainties, that need to be managed, and reduces the funnel of unknowns. Ultimately, step by step, we end up doing a park demo as just collecting together things learned in particular sessions.
Your help and comments are appreciated. You can:
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follow the
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offer your time, knowledge and experience
In particular, looking for:
| Job title | description |
|---|---|
| Video director | Someone who knows how to make short, engaging videos. Editing them is a chore to me - but I can be in the loop, helping out. The work would involve making one video per month. |
You can replicate all the sessions without doing excessive training outside of this repo and the Youtube videos. However, if you wish, here are some sources to deepen your knowledge. The author benefited from them.
| Title, authors etc. | ISBN | Comments |
|---|---|---|
| Komposiittirakenteet 2. painos by Saarela, Airasmaa; 2007 | 978-951-9271-28-6 | Amazing book on all composites, in Finnish. Free online. |
| MGMT : principles of management 9th ed. (Amazon.com) by Chuck Williams; 2015 | 978-1-305-66158-5 | Any collaboration requires management. Even participating in one. |
| Handbook of Structural Engineering 2nd ed. (Amazon.com) by Chen, Lui; 2005 | 0-8493-1569-7 | Chapter 24, "Space Frame Structures" |
These books were available in the Aalto Learning Centre (Espoo, Finland).
Email to demo@outstanding.earth.