Kartódromo, Bambu, Nano-partículas, um Avião experimental, uma Dremmel a comprar, etc.

Isto é bacano, e é renovando-nos, assim, que damos a volta à Crise!

E também é uma boa ideia para momentos de convívio memoráveis.

E por isso, cá vai o Destaque:

KARTÓDROMO DE OIÃ

O KARTÓDROMO DE OIÃ, fundado em 1994 e com nova gerência desde 2003, tem vindo desde então a trabalhar junto dos seus clientes no sentido de prestar mais e melhores serviços.

Estando situado na Zona Industrial de Oiã em Oliveira do Bairro, o complexo do KARTÓDROMO DE OIÃ, é composto por:

- Espaço de Bar/Restaurante;

- Pista de Karting com um perímetro de 620m na sua maior configuração, com espaço de boxes, oficinas, armazém de karts e balneário/vestiário.

Prestamos serviços na organização de convívios para particulares e empresas, na forma de provas desportivas de karting que podem ser de sprints individuais ou de resistência por equipas, ou até mesmo pequenos campeonatos que pretenda fazer na sua empresa ou entre o seu grupo de amigos.

O KARTÓDROMO DE OIÃ funciona durante todos os dias e todo o ano (com a excepção dos dias 1 de Janeiro e 25 de Dezembro) de modo a podermos estar sempre prontos a receber os nossos clientes.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Kart%C3%B3dromo-de-Oi%C3%A3/199933070036099?fref=ts

Para oferecer às Namoradas, Patroas, Mães, e etc, e também porque a ideia pode ser aproveitada para sucateiros amadores como eu, que aproveitem fio eléctrico enrolado, eis esta ideia original, em Bambu:

Bamboo Yarn Bowl 

dtextor

So your girlfriend likes knitting things and x-mas is coming soon? Making her a beautiful bamboo yarn bowl that keeps the yarn from getting entangled and unrolls the yarn would be a nice option.

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Materials needed

- wooden bowl (I used a bamboo bowl from Ikea)
- Dremel with a wood milling bit
- small wood drill bit that fits into your Dremel
- Sandpaper stripes
- Dremel polishing bit
- Beeswax block
- Two really steady hands!

http://www.instructables.com/id/Bamboo-Yarn-Bowl/

Portugueses de valor criam esta arma certeira contra o Cancro... 

(do Blogue Portugal Inovador)

Bravo, e assim se prova que cá se vai fazendo Ciência e Tecnologia, com fins práticos e nobres!

A ESTES, sim, eu chamaria de Senhores Doutores, mesmo a jogar à bola, na praia!

Nanopartícula contra cancro da mama criada em Coimbra tem patente nos EUA

Fonte: Lusa

A patente para uma nanopartícula de nova geração destinada ao tratamento do cancro da mama, desenvolvida por investigadores portugueses, foi concedida nos Estados Unidos, anunciou esta segunda-feira a Universidade de Coimbra.

Criada por especialistas do Centro de Neurociências e Biologia Celular e da Faculdade de Farmácia da Universidade de Coimbra, a nova nanopartícula teve ainda no seu desenvolvimento a colaboração do Instituto Português de Oncologia de Coimbra, da Faculdade de Farmácia de Lisboa e da Faculdade de Medicina do Porto e dispõe de um apoio de meio milhão de euros, concedidos no âmbito do Quadro de Referência Estratégica Nacional (QREN).

A nanopartícula “previne os efeitos secundários associados à quimioterapia” e, simultaneamente, “aumenta a eficácia terapêutica” do tratamento, sublinhou à agência Lusa João Nuno Moreira, investigador envolvido no projecto. Além de “matar as células cancerosas”, a nanopartícula para o tratamento do cancro da mama também aniquila “os vasos sanguíneos que alimentam o tumor, evitando reincidências”.

http://portugalinovador.wordpress.com/2012/12/19/nanoparticula-contra-cancro-da-mama-criada-em-coimbra-tem-patente-nos-eua/

 

 

 

Para quem pensa que ter um Sonho e realizá-lo, é para uns poucos, eis este bom exemplo:

Avião experimental feito em casa 

manfredpw

Olá pessoal, Desta vez resolvi compartilhar como vocês um projeto "faça você mesmo" de nível hardcore, porém do meu pai e não meu. Como vocês poderão notar no vídeo não se trata apenas de um "projeto", mas sim da realização do sonho de um homem (meu avô, seu Alfredo Wilke) e seu filho (meu pai, Olavo Wilke). Trata-se de um avião feito totalmente em casa, com materiais hoje tido como "rústicos" ou "de baixa qualidade", mas que na época eram mais facilmente encontrados e permitiam bastante manipulação sem ferramental especializado: madeira (Balsa e Quiri), cola Epóxi (Araldite), Dope aéreo, tecido de algodão, etc... Mas não se enganem: apesar de ser um projeto caseiro e deveras antigo o "Domingueiro" era (é?) o que se pode chamar de "estado da arte" para este tipo de empreitada.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Aviao-experimental-feito-em-casa-home-made-experi/

Esta é uma Ferramenta a ter em casa, uma Serra Pendular, mas com a capacidade de ser retirada da sua base, e usada tal e qual como uma Serra de Arco, mas eléctrica, por isso serve para uma data de coisas...

DREMEL® Moto-Saw

A Dremel Moto-Saw é uma serra estacionária compacta e fácil de usar para fazer cortes detalhados em diversos materiais. Com a sua gama de diferentes lâminas de serra, a Dremel Moto-Saw permite facilmente trabalhar um sem-número de diferentes materiais. Graças à sua serra de arco amovível, pode usá-la não só de modo estacionário, mas também em qualquer lugar, como ferramenta portátil. Esta prática serra não só é fácil de armazenar e montar, como também é muito simples de usar. A Dremel Moto-Saw é a serra estacionária mais fácil de usar.

http://www.dremeleurope.com/pt/pt/ocs/category/6132/dremel%C2%AE-moto-saw

 

 

3D para os Filmes, o Avião Transversal, e uma ideia nova para o Open Source

Eis uma para os Filmes, literalmente, a nova aventura dos Men in Black, vai envolver "Armas" Impressas em 3D!
Trazida até nós pelo Blog da Ponoko, este até tem um Vídeo para verem como é...

3D printed futuristic weaponry for Men in Black 3 

These futurist handguns for Men in Black 3 were made by Moddler, a custom 3D printing company in San Francisco, using their in-house Objet Eden500. This is a very high-end printer capable of printing multiple material materials on the same part. The gun above is printed in hard plastic with soft, spongy rubber grips.
Watch Moddler’s video for a look inside the company.

http://blog.ponoko.com/2012/09/04/3d-printed-futuristic-weaponry-for-men-in-black-3/

Um Avião, dois tipos de Asa, basta RODAR 90 GRAUS, em pleno voo!

Ora aí está uma ideia do caraças...

Radical bi-directional flying wing design gets NASA funding

By Darren Quick

A team that has created a supersonic jet design resembling a flying shuriken has been awarded a US$100, 000 grant from NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program to continue development of the aircraft. Aside from looking suitably futuristic, the concept plane’s four-pointed star design serves a practical purpose. By rotating in mid air, the plane can transition between broad-wing subsonic and shorter wingspan supersonic configurations.

http://www.gizmag.com/rotating-bi-directional-flying-wing-design/23982/

E uma ideia que nos aparece via The Firearm Blog, que poderá servir, ou não, a tanto Inventor-Empresário, que não vende o suficiente, abrir o desenho para Open Source...

E viver de vender as Peças Sobresselentes!

Será bem melhor que desistir de todo, penso eu...

Open Source the GMG (Fully Auto Airgun)?

The makers of the GMG .22, a fully automatic air gun, are considering open sourcing the design. Sales have not been good and they think there could be more money selling plans, kits and parts than fully assembled guns.

I think they should open source the design and release the plans and any CAD models under a Creative Commons license.

If they can create a community of builders and modders there could be a profitable business in selling parts, kits and upgrades.

This business model has worked well in the hobbyist electronics market where mini-industries develop around supplying parts and kits for open source hardware.

The company is running a poll on their website, asking if people would be willing to buy parts, rather than an entire gun.

http://networkedblogs.com/BIx65

 

 

Inovação Chinesa, Objectos Voadores, Organizem-se, e Pedro Nunes

Eis uma ideia Ovo-de-Colombo... 
Que tem mesmo a ver com Ovos! 

Prova que os Chineses estão a Inovar, uma simples Garrafa de àgua separa as Gemas dum Ovo!

Quer para os Caçadores de OVNIs, ou Observadores de Aves, como Entusiastas da Aviação, etc, etc, eis um App que permite aos SmartPhones medir a distância, direccção e velocidade dum Objecto à distância:

Smartphone app determines location, speed and direction of distant objects 

By Darren Quick

Researchers at the University of Missouri have developed a prototype app that combines a smartphone’s GPS, compass and imaging capabilities to calculate the exact location of distant objects and track their speed and direction. The researchers say the PositionIt app could allow a single off-the-shelf device to replace various pieces of equipment carried by soldiers on the battlefield, or be used closer to home to judge the distance to the green when playing golf. 

http://www.gizmag.com/location-tracking-smartphone-app/23946/

Como não podem acrescentar espaço às vossas casas, acrescentem espaço às vossas Bancadas, para arrumar toda a Tralha que as entope todas... Até tem uma Bobine para fio, e tudo:

Easy work bench organizer with wire dispenser

dtextor

I have a small work bench in my room to work with electronics. Since it is small it's always crammed (see the BFEORE picture...) and I end up working on the office table. I took some waste wood that I had lying around and built that work bench top. It's super easy to build and helps a lot to keep the place usable.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Easy-work-bench-organizer-with-wire-dispenser/

E mais Tugas brilham lá fora,o Instituo Pedro Nunes, vai figurar num Projecto Internacional de Inovação, ao largo dos Estados Unidos:

Instituto Pedro Nunes convidado para projecto de incubadora de empresas em águas internacionais

02.09.2012 - 19:36 Por Lusa

O Instituto Pedro Nunes (IPN), de Coimbra, vai integrar um projecto internacional de criação de uma incubadora de empresas em águas internacionais, a cerca de 22 quilómetros de Silicon Valley, nos Estados Unidos da América.

Silicon Valley é uma região dos EUA onde está instalado um conjunto de empresas que tem como o objectivo gerar inovações científicas e tecnológicas.

Teresa Mendes, directora do IPN, explicou que a empresa irá participar no projecto Blueseed que pretende instalar uma incubadora de empresas num navio em águas internacionais, para que as empresas interessadas possam temporariamente desenvolver negócios e parcerias sem as exigências de visto de trabalho dos EUA.

“Esta localização, em águas internacionais, permite a empreendedores não americanos desenvolver os seus negócios em Silicon Valley, aligeirando a carga burocrática”, disse hoje a responsável à agência Lusa.

http://economia.publico.pt/Noticia/instituto-pedro-nunes-convidado-para-projecto-de-incubadora-de-empresas-em-aguas-internacionais--1561412

Avões Open_Source, Repoarar Madeira, e Tricorders

Porque não? Avionetas Open-Source, eis algo de novo... E recorrendo à Fabricação 3D, para ser ainda mais acessível!

Makerplane aims to create the first open source aircraft

By David Szondy

The idea of owning your own plane is the stuff of daydreams. It’s incredibly appealing, but despite some (relative) drops in pricing in recent years, it remains incredibly expensive. If you build your own plane from a kit, it’s a bit cheaper than buying one, but the odds are that you’ll never complete the job because kitplanes are notoriously difficult to build. However, that may be changing. MakerPlane is a project that aims to create an open source aircraft designed by contributors and built with digital manufacturing processes. You can’t download the plans into your 3D printer and fly away that afternoon, but it does hold the promise of making amateur aviation a lot more accessible.

http://www.gizmag.com/makerplane-open-source-airplane/

Eis algo mais terra-a-terra, reparar as rachas na Madeira, de forma a que mantenham as tábuas as propriedades originais...

Repairing Split Wood

Scotttland

In an otherwise attractive piece of wood, an unsightly split or crack can run deep like family turmoil.  Most wood fillers are intended to be little more than aesthetic solutions.  Even the hardiest fillers are intended to withstand compressive forces but not sheer stress.  Here I will demonstrate my solution for when I don't want to give-up on a piece of wood.  This block was salvaged from a eucalyptus tree that fell on my grandmother's house (don't worry, I'm fine).  I want to be able to work on it without risk of further splittage.
  I do all my wood repair at TechShop.

http://www.instructables.com/id/Repairing-Split-Wood/

 

 

Lembram-se do Caminho das Estrelas, Star Trek?

Eis um passo para o Diagnóstico em poucos instantes, de várias Doenças, e condições ambientais de Higiene:  

 

"Real-life tricorder" to be tested on International Space Station

By Darren Quick

While still impressive, the capabilities of early "tricorders," such as the Scanadu and Dr Jansen's tricorder, fall well short of the Star Trek device that inspired them. But new technology to be tested on the International Space Station (ISS) brings the age of instant diagnosis of medical conditions using a portable device a step closer. The Microflow could also make its way into doctor’s offices here on Earth where it might help cut down on the number of follow up visits required after waiting to get results back from the lab.

The Microflow is a miniaturized version of a flow cytometer, which analyzes cells suspended in a stream of fluid as they pass single-file in front of a laser. As the suspended particle passes through the beam, various detectors positioned where the stream meets the laser can analyze the physical and chemical properties of the molecules or cells in the stream. Because they work in real-time, flow cytometers offer diagnosis in just 10 minutes of everything from infections, to stress, blood cells and cancer markers. They can also identify bacterial pathogens in food or water.

http://www.gizmag.com/microflow-flow-cytometer/23900/

Eu quero um!

EU QUERO UM!

Não importa, até vou para um Canal de TV, fazer Figura-de-Urso, só para ter um destes...

Passava o Tejo, sem problema de trânsito nenhum, ia a Genebra, non-stop, uma maravilha!

Voar, e andar à vontade, nas Auto-Estradas, 100% de acordo com a Legistação das Estradas...

PAL-V flying car makes successful first test flight


By Darren Quick

With the PAL-V last appearing on our pages way back in 2004, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this is just another flying car concept that never made it off the ground. But Dutch company PAL-V Europe NV has been busy in the past seven years having finalized the design concept in 2008 and testing a driving prototype in 2009. Now the flying-driving prototype has been put through its paces with video of the PAL-V’s recent successful maiden flight now released.

http://www.gizmag.com/pal-v-flying-car/22032/

É bom!

David 3D, e mais

O programa David, um Scanner 3D cada vez melhor, está na versão 3.0:

A newsletter é tão cheia de coisas boas, que decidi apresentar uma parte, tal-qual:

New DAVID Version 3

Voilà: After more than a year of development, DAVID 3.0 is now available!
The most important innovation:
DAVID is the first and only software that supports both, "classic" Laser Scanning AND Structured Light Scanning! The Structured Light method is presented below.
Also, the completely new user interface (see below) makes DAVID3 more flexible, extendable and user-friendly.

Of course the new version is compatible to the same hardware: cameras, lasers, calibration patterns...

As always we offer a Free Version for everyone. Please feel free to test everything! Only saving results is limited. Download DAVID 3 now!

If you would like to purchase a license, please click here.
Of course if you already own a DAVID 2.x license or original USB key, you can upgrade to DAVID 3 at a lower price.

To purchase your upgrade, please contact your local reseller or visit our shop.

Structured Light Scanning

Structured Light (SL) makes scanning faster and easier! For this method you can use a standard video projector instead of the line laser.
This animation demonstrates the setup:

The video projector is connected to the PC and DAVID 3 uses it to illuminate the object with several stripe patterns. Click "Start" - wait a few seconds - see 3D result on screen!
Our Mexican reseller VISI Series has already tried it and made a short demo video (thank you!). Watch this video on YouTube.

Of course an SL setup needs to be optimized and calibrated (first the camera, then the laser). Our DAVID 3 user manual will guide you through it.

So what are the pros and cons of Structured Light Scanning compared to Laser Scanning:

+	Scanning without calibration panels in the background! (Panels are only initially required for camera and projector calibration.)
+	Much faster
+	One-click scan
+	No moving parts / no influence of hand tremors etc.
+	Can use photo camera, e.g. DSLR (still not recommended, but will be great and comfortable with a future DAVID version - work in progress)

-	Projector prices are dropping, but they are still more expensive than lasers
-	Room needs to be rather dark, usually darker than required for laser
-	Not suitable for very small details on small objects because projectors usually can't be focused to very short distances

You should definitely give it a try!

E já vos disse que tem uma... Versão grátis desse programa?

Pois...

E como não fosse tudo eis mais 2 links para impressão 3D, sim, também da Newsletter!

All  in 3d:

Often, interesting ideas do not get the attention they deserve. In a presentation they lack that certain something, the transfer from intangible brainchild to tangible, true-to-life object. One or another idea can be acceptably outlined by pictures and texts, but any type of creative conceptual design turns into a real eye-catcher only when showing its third dimension. This is when imagination transforms into a physical likeness and literally takes shape, when a thought turns into a real “object of desire”.

At 3D-Idea, we make this come true for you.

http://www.all-in-3d.de/allin3d_en.html

...E Rapid Objects:

http://www.rapidobject-shop.com/en/products




Um Jet-Pack já à venda!

After Record-Making Flight, Martin Jetpack Will Soon Be on Sale

Buy one next year for just $100,000

By Gregory Mone

In May, inventor Glenn Martin—along with fire-rescue officers and crews on board a pair of chase helicopters—watched as his jetpack flew for nine minutes and 43 seconds, soaring 3,500 feet into the New Zealand sky. Had the machine been holding a live person instead of a 150-pound dummy, it would have smashed the record for the longest and highest jetpack flight ever. Every other such device in history has managed to be airborne for, at most, only a minute or two. But Martin was out to do more than set records with his demonstration. He wanted to prove that his design was safe enough to become the first commercial jetpack—one anyone could buy and fly.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-08/finally-jetpack-flies

E para o fim, por hoje, Nanotubos de Grafeno para substituír o fio de Cobre.

Lightweight Cable Made of Braided Nanotubes Could Replace Copper Wires

By Rebecca Boyle

Cables made out of nanowires could be just as efficient as the copper cables we’ve been using for more than a century, but at a fraction of the weight, according to a new paper. Braiding billions of carbon nanotubes into a nanowire cable can efficiently replace copper in a light bulb circuit.

Traditional cables are made by braiding or twisting together two or more wires or optical fibers, usually metal or silicon, to carry a current or signal. In a new study, Rice University researchers instead used double-walled carbon nanotubes, made of concentric rolled-up sheets of graphene.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-09/lightweight-cable-made-braided-nanotubes-could-replace-copper-wires

Helicóptero eléctrico!

Isto promete...

Modern-day aviation pioneer achieves world's first untethered, manned electric helicopter flight


By Loz Blain

It's easy to look back at the history of exploration and aviation and feel like there's no mountains left to climb, that the age of the great pioneers is behind us and we're doomed to a future of LCD tanning and monitor hypnosis. But don't try telling that to Pascal Chretien. On August 12, this electrical/aerospace engineer and helicopter pilot took to the air in the world's first untethered, fully electric manned helicopter flight in a prototype machine that he designed and built almost entirely by himself within a 12 month development period. In his 2 minute, 10 second test flight, Chretien beat aviation giant Sikorsky into the record books - but it was not without significant risk. As the man himself puts it: "in case of crash I stand good chances to end up in kebab form."

http://www.gizmag.com/first-successful-manned-electric-helicopter-flight/19716/

E notícias da AltLab:

Classes

Altlab offers fun, cheap, and interesting classes!
Next classes, please check the calendar and online registration here.

ÚLTIMAS VAGAS ! + info e inscrições aqui

http://altlab.org/classes/#PNS




E mais esta maravilha!


Do Blog da Sculpteo:

3D Printing complex parts

In this Robot Dreams video, Hiro Maruoka (Marubeni Systems) shows some complex parts/assemblies produced on Stratasys 3D Printers.

Hiro Maruoka of Marubeni Systems showed us several complex mechanisms that were 3D printed as complete assemblies. The internal gaps and clearances were printed with a soluble material that was easily disolved after the object finished printing.

http://blog.sculpteo.com/2011/09/07/3d-printing-complex-parts/

Aeromodelismo e Oxigénio

Eis um Objcto que pode servir de inspiração a muito Modelista, um Painel de Controlo para um Modelo de Avião feito através da Sculpteo:

Eis o Avião, do qual o Modelo foi feito:

Aeromodelling – 3D Printed Plane Dashboard Replica 

Posted on 2011/09/02 by sculpteo 

User “Tortilla”, from Dijon Flying Club, modeled this Robin DR400 dashboard ready to be 3D Printed. “The Robin DR400 is a wooden sport monoplane, conceived by Pierre Robin and Jean Délémontez. The Robin DR400 first flew in 1972 and was still in production in 2008. It has a tricycle undercarriage, and can carry four people. The DR400 aircraft have the ‘cranked wing’ configuration, in which the dihedral angle of the outer wing is much greater than the inboard, a configuration which they share with Jodel aircraft. This model is considered easy to fly by many and quiet during flight due to its wooden frame” (Wikipedia)

http://blog.sculpteo.com/2011/09/02/aeromodelling-3d-printed-plane-dashboard-replica/

... E algo de incrível, nano-geradores de oxigénio para combater o Cancro!

O tamanho da coisa!

Miniature oxygen generator implants to boost effectiveness of cancer treatments 

By Darren Quick 

Some cancers, such as pancreatic and cervical cancers, are notoriously hypoxic, which means they contain low oxygen levels. Because radiation therapy needs oxygen to be effective, hypoxic areas of a tumor can be difficult to kill. To combat this, researchers at Purdue University have developed and tested a miniature electronic device that is designed to be implanted into solid tumors to generate oxygen and boost the effectiveness of radiation and chemotherapy treatments. Once implanted into a tumor, the new "implantable micro oxygen generator" uses ultrasonic signals to generate a small voltage to separate oxygen and hydrogen from water in a chemical process called water electrolysis. The devides are just under one centimeter (0.39-in) long and are inserted into tumors with a hypodermic biopsy needle. 

http://www.gizmag.com/miniature-oxygen-generator/19703/

Instructables à brava!

Esta passa à frente das outras, do Blogue da Pononko, como fresar peças por CNC, para as vossas Barracas de Ferramentas, Oficinas, sei lá mais o quê...

WikiHouse – the open source house

CNC mill a livable house.

WikiHouse is a new project trying to make house construction open source. With WikiHouse anyone could download plans to CNC mill and assemble a house. The system relies on standard 2440mm x 1220mm (8′ x 4′) 18mm plywood. Besides a CNC mill, you only need basic hardware and hand tools. The plans can be altered in Google Sketchup and new designs can be offered back to the community.

There have been many open source projects over the last few years, but most focus on digital technology or, to a lesser extent, small scale physical products. Larger construction brings with it imposing practical challenges. WikiHouse is one of the few to try and overcome these challenges.

WikiHouse is still in the early stages, so the plans are not yet available for download. The organizers are currently looking for collaborators, so have a look at the site if you are interested.

Vão aqui: http://www.wikihouse.cc/index.html

...Como a malta dos Instructables tem de tudo, aqui vai como adaptar bem o motor à fuselagem dos vossos Aviões Experimentais(!)

 

http://www.instructables.com/id/New-cowling-for-your-experimental-aircraft/

Como fazer Fotos de Pin-Ups, nos nossos dias!

Claro que isto é cá mostrado, apenas pelo seu valor artístico... Hum.

http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-do-a-Pin-Up-Style-Photo-shoot-at-Home/

E para algo completamente diferente, como fazer os vossos próprios Tubos Catódicos:

http://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Electron-Accelerator-A-Cathode-Ray-Tube-in-a-/



Um Ar Condicionado portátil...

http://www.instructables.com/id/Keep-Me-Cool-Portable-Air-Conditioning-Cooler-120V/

...E do Blog da Vectorealism, os Planos para um Tanque Robotizado, com um Arduino!

http://www.vectorealism.com/2011/08/carroarmato-arduino-plexiglas/

Faraduino

A Mindsets traz-nos o Faraduino:

Developed by Middlesex University Teaching Resources in partnership with East Barnet secondary school.

Faraduino is an open source controller board with built in motor drivers and servo connectors, ideal for robotics. It's fully compatible with the open source Arduino platform that is taking the world by storm, so there is already a wealth of information available to you (see www.arduino.cc). You can use the excellent Arduino programming software to download “sketches” (the Arduino name for a program) to your Faraduino via USB. Alternatively, you can try out Flowino for a simple, flowchart based programming system.

http://www.mindsetsonline.co.uk/product_info.php?products_id=1009809

Um motor eléctrico para os vossos aviões de papel!

Power Up gives paper planes an electric boost


By Ben Coxworth

Although they've been around for ages, for some reason paper airplanes have never been adopted for commercial use. It could be because they get soggy when wet, they lack any kind of flight controls, or because you would need an incredibly huge piece of paper in order to make one big enough to carry a human passenger. In any case, practical paper airplanes have now perhaps come a baby step closer to reality, with Tailor Toys' Power Up electric power module for paper airplanes - it allows you to mount an electric propeller on your paper airplanes, so they can fly under their own power.

http://www.gizmag.com/power-up-electric-propeller-for-paper-airplanes/19321/

Um arado coberto de carbono com a estrutura do diamante para deslizar artavés da terra, poupando energia:

Diamond-like carbon-coated plows to save fuel by sliding through the soil

By Darren Quick

Plows are one of the most basic agricultural implements and have been in use for thousands of years. In that time they've evolved from simple ox-drawn scratch plows consisting of a frame holding a vertical wooden stick dragged through the topsoil - which are still used in many parts of the world - to tractor-mounted plows that can have as many as 18 moldboards. The evolution of the humble plow looks set to continue with Fraunhofer scientists working on diamond-like carbon (DLC)-coated plowshares that would slide through the soil like a hot knife through butter, thereby requiring less fuel.

http://www.gizmag.com/dlc-coated-plows/19334/

...E mais uma Bicicleta de Plástico:

Frii bike concept made from injection-molded recycled plastic

By Paul Ridden

If Israeli industrial design student Dror Peleg had been around in the late 1950s, I feel sure that his Frii plastic bike concept would have found its way into Mosanto's House of the Future. Over 50 years later, that vision of a world of plastic has also given rise to some serious disposal issues and grave environmental concerns. Frii proposes to be part of the solution, not the problem. Made from recycled plastic, the city cycling concept would be manufactured locally for local use. Components would be injection molded into modular shapes that snap together to form a strong, lightweight and very colorful single-speed bike for quick trips through the city streets.

http://www.gizmag.com/frii-recycled-plastic-bike/19337/

Aerocarros!!!

A União Europeia está a pensar adoptar Aerocarros, para resolver problemas de Trânsito!

EU project looks to the future of personal air transport

By Bridget Borgobello

A European Union project known as myCopter has set aside funds of €4.2 million (US$6.2m) to investigate the possibility of introducing Personal Aerial Vehicles (PAVs) into the skyways of many congested European cities. This coming age of the "flying car" where vehicles leave the roads and launch into the skies promises to solve problems like dramatically rising urban traffic congestion, but it also throws up some formidable challenges - it's these challenges that the myCopter project aims to address.

http://www.gizmag.com/mycopter-eu-project-personal-air-vehicle/19076/

...Parece que qualquer um poderá ver quase qualquer Filme 3D, com qualquer écran...

Pic3D sheet transforms any screen into a glasses-free 3D display


By Pawel Piejko

It seems that those of us who haven't bought a glasses-free 3D gadget yet may have the opportunity to try one anyway. Announced at the Virtual Reality Exhibition in Tokyo, Pic3D is a thin sheet of transparent film, which enables a glasses-free 3D effect after being applied to any screen. Global Wave, the Japanese company that makes the product, claims that it utilizes a lenticular lens system instead of parallax barrier, achieves 90 percent of light transmission, and has a 120-degree of field view.

Using Pic3D film is reportedly quite easy, although a special application needs to be downloaded from Pic3D's website. After installing it on a digital media device, the user must view their footage using the app's built-in video player, to see the stereoscopic 3D effect. Pic3D works with the side-by-side (SbS) 3D video format only, and will work for SbS content on sites such as YouTube.

http://www.gizmag.com/pic3d-glasses-free-3d/19080/

...Mais outro Aerocarro...

SoloTrek developers planning two seat electric hybrid Air Car

By Paul Ridden

If you've ever watched your Parrot AR Drone power through the air and wondered what it would be like to be inside such a craft, the announcement of the Air Car project could be the answer you are looking for. The folks behind the development of the SoloTrek/Springtail Exoskeleton Flying Vehicle have revealed plans to create the world's first fuel-electric hybrid flying car.

Michael Moshier and Robert Bulaga of Trek Aerospace are forming a new company to develop the hybrid Air Car, which will combine recent technological advances in materials and electronics with the kind of duct-fan technology that was used in the now-retired Springtail single person vertical take-off-and-landing (VTOL) vehicle.

http://www.gizmag.com/solotrek-hybrid-air-car/19081/

...E se se ouvir muita gente, Soldados, e Fabbers, utilizando a Net, até se constroem melhores Carros de Combate!

How The First Crowdsourced Military Vehicle Can Remake the Future of Defense Manufacturing

DARPA's community-designed FLYPMODE car was presented to President Obama last week

The military and defense contractors can learn a lot from the wisdom of the masses, and American fighting forces could be better equipped and better protected if higher-ups would embrace the DIY ethos of ingenuity and agility. At least that’s how Jay Rogers, founder of an automotive firm that just built a military concept vehicle from crowdsourced plans, sees things.

Rogers’ team of designers and engineers at Local Motors in Phoenix built the car, nicknamed FLYPmode, from scratch in less than four months, unveiling it for President Obama last week before delivering it to the military’s mad-science division in Virginia. If makers like Rogers get their way, the first Experimental Crowd-derived Combat Support Vehicle, or XC2V, just might be the future of the military industrial supply chain. But Rogers and his advocates face some hurdles first.

http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2011-06/how-first-crowdsourced-military-car-can-remake-future-defense-manufacturing

Mais novidades

Uma boa, para TODO ESTE CALOR, uma nova Liga metálica que converte o calor em electricidade!

New alloy converts heat directly into electricity

By Ben Coxworth

The heat given off by electronics, automobile engines, factories and other sources is a potentially huge source of energy, and various technologies are being developed in order to capture that heat, and then convert it into electricity. Thanks to an alloy that was recently developed at the University of Minnesota, however, a step in that process could be saved - the new material is able to convert heat directly into electricity.

The multiferroic alloy, with the catchy name Ni45Co5Mn40Sn10, was created by combining its various elements at the atomic level. Multiferroic materials are known for having unique elastic, magnetic and electric properties, and in the case of this alloy, that takes a form of an usual phase change. When heated, the non-magnetic solid material suddenly becomes a strongly magnetic solid.

In a lab test, upon becoming magnetic, the material absorbed heat in its environment and proceeded to produce electricity in an attached coil. Although some of the heat energy is lost in a process known as hysteresis, the U Minnesota researchers have developed a method of minimizing that energy loss.

http://www.gizmag.com/alloy-converts-heat-into-electricity/19025/

Uma maravilha, este projecto Britânico, ainda há lá Cabecinhas Pensadoras!

ESA review finds 'no impediments' for SKYLON spaceplane development

By Darren Quick

After nearly 30 years of service, the Space Shuttle fleet is due to enter retirement with the last ever mission scheduled for takeoff on July 8, 2011. In its lifetime, the world's first Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV) has provided information that will prove invaluable for the next generation of spacecraft that will succeed it. One such craft is the Skylon, an unpiloted, single-stage, reusable spaceplane currently under development by UK-based Reaction Engines Ltd. (REL). The Skylon got a shot in the arm last month with the release of a technical review of Skylon carried out by the European Space Agency (ESA) that concluded there are "no impediments" that would prevent the continued development of the Skylon and its SABRE engine.

The Skylon design, which grew out of the HOTOL (Horizontal Take-Off and Landing) program by Rolls Royce and British Aerospace that was terminated in 1988, consists of a slender fuselage containing propellant tankage and payload bay, with delta wings attached midway along the fuselage carrying the SABRE engines in axismmetric nacelles on the wingtips.

With a payload bay measuring 4.6 m (15 ft) in diameter and 12.3 m (40 ft) long, Skylon is designed to transport up to 15 tons of cargo into Low Earth Orbit (LEO, approx. 300 km /186 mile) at about 1/50th of the cost of traditional expendable launch vehicles, such as rockets. It could also carry 10.5 tons to a 460 km (286 mile) equatorial space station, or 9.5 tons to a 460 km x 28.5 degree space station, when operating from an equatorial site.

http://www.gizmag.com/skylon-spaceplane/19033/

...Não foram a Paris, ver os Aviões?
Vejam nesta página, carreguem no Link:

The 2011 Paris Airshow in pictures


By Noel McKeegan

Over two thousand international exhibitors, 142 aircraft and tens of thousands of visitors gathered at the Le Bourget exhibition center this week for the 49th International Paris Airshow. Despite some grey skies and unwelcome rain, crowds were treated to spectacular daily flying displays and insights into bleeding-edge aerospace technologies that will shape the way we travel around the planet - and beyond - in the 21st Century. Gizmag joined the throng of media organizations soaking up all that the show has to offer - here's our summary of the week in pictures.

http://www.gizmag.com/2011-paris-airshow-photos/19022/

Muitas e boas Notícias!

A Samsung adopta uma Tecnologia desenvolvida em Portugal!

Do Site chamado Boas Notícias:

Poderá ser o fim do velho silicío na construção dos ecrãs televisivos. Investigadores da Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova de Lisboa desenvolveram, em colaboração com a Samsung, uma nova geração de ecrãs que recorre a um novo novo tipo de transistores transparentes e mais baratos.

A novidade consiste na substituição do material semicondutor dos transístores, que é neste momento silício, por um novo material transparente à base de óxidos, como o óxido de zinco, e que oferece várias vantagens.

Este material - que tem já muitas aplicações como por exemplo nos cremes cicatrizantes e nos protetores solares - pode ser produzido a um custo muito mais baixo e à temperatura ambiente, disse esta semana à agência Lusa Elvira Fortunato, que coordena o projeto juntamente com o seu colega Rodrigo Martins.

http://www.boasnoticias.pt/noticias_Samsung-adota-tecnologia-made-in-Portugal_6894.html

Como construír um Dinossauro, a partir duma Galinha!

Video: How to Build a Dinosaur from a Chicken

By Clay Dillow

How does one build a dinosaur? There’s the much-celebrated Crichton/Spielberg method, in which you extract dino DNA from a preserved prehistoric mosquito. But there are problems with this approach, says paleontologist Jack Horner in a recent TED Talk, and besides: there are plenty of spare dinosaur parts laying around our modern world from which to build a dinosaur. We just need to find the right ones.

Horner has spent a career digging up some of the best-preserved biological artifacts leftover from the dinosaurs’ tenure on this planet, but in none of them, not even the soft tissues like preserved blood vessels, could he or his team find intact DNA--the kind you need to clone a dinosaur a la Jurassic Park. So he and some colleagues are looking for dino-era DNA in dinosaurs’ descendants: modern birds.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-06/video-how-build-dinosaur-chicken

...E aviões que vão ser autênticos Transatlânticos do Ar:

Video: Airbus Offers a Peek at the Translucent Future of Passenger Air Travel

By Clay Dillow

Airbus has seen the future, and it's spacious, sunlit and full of interactive screens. Oh, and cocktails will be served in the virtual bar, assuming someone isn’t playing 18 holes in there.

After revealing its larger vision of what aviation hardware will offer us in 2050 at last year’s Paris Air Show--reduced emissions, lower fuel consumption, reductions in noise and increases in speed--the company has turned its attention toward the passenger experience, offering a sneak peak of the future via the video below.

What does the future have in store? Well, assuming populations begin growing less obese and the economics of packing as many people on a flight as possible are discarded (in the future, air travel--like society--will know no class), the future is much more comfortable.

When flights are at less than full capacity, unneeded seats at the rear of the plane will collapse and all seats will redistribute themselves to offer everyone an equitable boost in legroom. These seats will also morph to fit passengers’ bodies.

http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-06/video-airbus-offers-sneak-peek-future-passenger-air-travel

Veículos estapafúrdios!

Uma data deles!
Este Conceito, já tem Décadas, mas parece que este modelo conduz-se melhor que os outros...

EDWARD - a diwheel student-built vehicle that really works

By Pawel Piejko

Designed and built by a team of students from Australia's University of Adelaide, EDWARD is a futuristic, purely electric dicycle - also known as a diwheel. Although it looks like transportation from the realm of science fiction, the vehicle is fully operational and can be controlled with surprising precision.

http://www.gizmag.com/edward-a-diwheel-student-built-vehicle-that-really-works/18853/

Uma prancha de Skate eléctrica, ou lá o que é, de respeito...

Scarpar's high speed, all-terrain powerboard set to launch within months

By Loz Blain

Two years ago, we had a look at the Scarpar - a twin-tracked, high speed all terrain powerboard that seemed like a promising power toy. Well, we've just spoken to Scarpar CEO Andrew Fern, who has confirmed that this unique vehicle is going into production later this year, and he's taking deposits as of now. Basically everything on the board has been changed since the last prototype we saw - it now runs an independent electric motor in each of the two articulating tracks, and the hand-held throttle and brake unit is now wireless.

http://www.gizmag.com/scarpar-electric-powerboard-ready-for-production/18850/

E uma Hoverbyke!

Australian built Hoverbike prepares for takeoff
By Darren Quick

dventurous motorcyclists might be familiar with the thrill of getting airborne at the top of a rise, but the Hoverbike is set to take catching some air to a whole new level. With a 1170 cc 4-stroke engine delivering 80 kW driving two ducted propellers, the inventor of the Hoverbike, Chris Malloy, says with its high thrust to weight ratio, the Hoverbike should be able to reach an estimated height of more than 10,000 feet and reach an indicated airspeed of 150 knots (278 km/h or 173 mph).
http://www.gizmag.com/hoverbike/18813/