This Engineering Newswire looks at riding in a jet powered go kart, cutting components with an all new controller, and building the world's longest glass bridge.
Jet Powered Go Kart Reaches 60 MPH
Colin Furze is known for his wacky YouTube inventions. His latest project was to build the best pulse jet powered go-cart the internet has ever seen.
The kart is gas powered, because it is easy to light and doesn’t require a complex injection system. The injector is a piece of stainless pipe capped off with small holes drilled along 2 sides.
Right now the GoCarts top speed is 60 mpg, but Furze says that he also runs out of airstrip, so there might be “more in it.”
New Controller Cuts Costs, Reduces Time-to-Market
St. Louis, Missouri-based Watlow is well known for its work in industrial heaters, temp sensors, and controllers. This week, the company was so excited about its latest product, that they traveled all the way to our office in Madison, Wisconsin to show us why it’s poised to cause more than a few ripples in the market.
Product Manager Craig Dennis unveiled the F4T with INTUITION temperature process controller with an innovative capacitive touchscreen that looks like my smartphone interface. The 4.3-inch screen provides intuitive navigation and screen personalization that allows channels, alarms, inputs and outputs to be programmed with user-defined specifications.
China Building the World's Longest Glass Bridge
In the U.S., play it safe thrill seekers can visit the horseshoe-shaped cantilever bridge that extends over the edge of the Grand Canyon. The 70-foot long Skywalk is 10-feet wide and was designed by architect Mark Ross Johnson.
This week, plans leaked of a much more ambitious glass bridge.
The World's Longest Glass Bridge will be built across the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon in the Hunan Province in China. Designed by Israeli architect Haim Dotan, it will be the highest and longest glass bridge in the world.
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