We’re bouncing back and forth between high tech and low tech, from 5 axis milling machines to hands on clay mockups for body kits, today it’s back to high tech with this brand new 3D printer for the desktop from HP, the HP Designjet 3D Printer. It’s now on sale in Europe starting around $17,500, [...]
New Technology
It’s no secret, most of us here love to see high quality machine work and industrial robots are now capable of extreme precision at high speed. Guided by 3D software, (in the example here they’re using hyperMILL) they go to work on metal and turn it into whatever design is loaded in the computer. The [...]
Reading the latest Popular Mechanics (May 2010), they mentioned something I have not heard of before called friction stir welding. It’s a process used to join metal, usually aluminum, without an arc. Instead, it uses a spinning rod, rotating at 15,000 rpm to heat the metal and high pressure to join the heated pieces together. [...]
Transonic Supercritical Fuel Injection is another technical advancement for the internal combustion engine that shows rather startling gains in efficiency, 50 to 75 percent! “A test vehicle the size and weight of a Toyota Prius (but without hybrid propulsion) showed 64 miles per gallon for highway driving.” That beats the hybrid. Transonic Combustion, the company [...]
