Rosenbauer airport fire engine

e-SkateBoard

Take a look at www.cayim.com for a detailed diary of the project. 

The approach for a speed control input is to take the area surrounding the hand, detecting open, closed and continous values in between.

A gesture controlled skateboard

The e[cam]Board is a project powered by PMDTechnologies and www.cayim.com demonstration the performance of the PMD[vision](r)CamBoard nano as a device for touchless gesture control.

„Rollin' Justin“

The mobile humanoid roboter, named "Rollin' Justin", with its compliant controlled light weight arms and its two four finger hands is an ideal experimental platform for current research issues, such as the capability to carry out complex manipulation tasks.The newly developed mobile platform allows the long range autonomous operation of the system.The individually movable, spring born wheels match the special requirements of “Justin's” upper body during manipulation tasks. PMD sensors and cameras allow the 3D reconstruction of the robot's environment and therefore enable Justin to perform given tasks autonomously.
Click here for more information!

Cranes playing ...

... create a World Sensation: the 3000t lift. LIEBHERR cranes make a mobile with ca.3000t on the hook, and a total weight of about 5000 t Open Days at the 13th 14/06/2012. Click here for the video!

Guess who won?

Caterpillar eyes huge growth in China

Caterpillar's engineering machinery products on display at an exhibition in Beijing. The company plans to double the number of its employees in China by 2015. Click here for the text!

Only the smartest people win millions!

The qualified teams

Extraordinary innovations in technology and science are the goal of the X PRIZE Foundation. The X PRIZE Foundation was founded in 1995 and has since then announced prizes which are privately sponsored and conducted competitions in various disciplines with the goal to inspire companies to go new ways and to further develop research and know-how. Among others the X PRIZE Foundation is looking for the world's most fuel-efficient car. And that means: the car must not consume more than 2.3 litres of fuel per 100 kilometres and be suitable for everyday use. Click here for more information!

The daily dose of heavy equipment

The new "Heavy Equipment Calendar" of Bauforum24 is now available. André Brockschmidt, the Managing Director of Bauform24, and his team have impressively portrayed heavy equipment for the third time. More than 2,800 tons of steel and concentrated power of over 40,000 hp. So every month of this year will be a visual enjoyment for fans of heavy equipment.
Click here for the official trailer!

Click here for more information!

Merry christmas!

I wish you a merry christmas and a happy new year!

Google Patents Transition To Autonomous Driving For Cars

Google has just been granted a patent that describes a possible switch from a car that is driven by a human to an autonomous driving mode. The patent was written by a group of engineers that includes the winners of the 2007 DARPA Urban Challenge.

We have heard quite a bit about Google’s autonomous cars driving around in California. A patent approved by the USPTO yesterday provides more detail on these cars and the technology they may use. The patent #8,078,349, filed on May 11 of this year, specifically refers to the event when a mixed-mode car is enabled to transition from a human driver to an autonomous mode.

source:
http://www.conceivablytech.com/9983/products/google-patents-transition-to-autonomous-driving-for-cars

Educational television light!

Physicists, biologists and other scientists watch up: Another comfortable TV night: The US American sitcom "The Big Bang Theory" is a real insider's tip.



For more information visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Bang_Theory

On 18 August 1896 Gottlieb Daimler ...

... proudly presented the first truck worldwide.

After his studies of Mechanical Engineering the son of a master baker got to know the designer Wilhelm Maybach in his first job in a mechanical engineering company. This lifelong friendship and cooperation not only resulted in the first benzene-driven combustion engine, the first motorbike (1885), the first engine-driven carriage (1886) or engines for boats, locomotives and airships (1887/1888) but also in the company Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft founded in 1890.

Finally on 18 August 1896 his group presented the first motorised truck of the world, the "Phönix".



A two-cylinder engine with a cylinder capacity of 1.06 litres achieved a power of 4 PS and a maximum speed of 16 km/h. In the open and on iron wheels the driver could go for about 200 kilometers. On 1 October 1896 Daimler-Motorengesellschaft delivered the first truck to London.

Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottlieb_Daimler

Who was trained ...

... to become a gunsmith before constructing the first truck?

A giant on Australia's roads

The "road train" is the longest road-driven truck of its kind (it really travels on "normal" roads).

It is 53.5 metres long and pulls up to 4 trailers. By comparison, the longest trucks in Germany measure 18.75 metres.

Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_train

Why are the steering wheels of English cars on the right-hand side?

The term left-hand traffic refers to road traffic which, in contrast to right-hand traffic, keeps to the left side of the road seen from the driver's perspective. Left-hand traffic countries are mainly those formerly governed by Britain. There are many theories and explanations for this way of traffic routing.

For example, it is assumed that right- or left-handed people determined the respective standards. Some believe, among other things, that this way of driving, which seems unusual to us German right-hand drivers, originates from the days when we travelled the roads in horse-drawn carriages. In those days, the reins were held on the left, right or in the middle or the vehicle was steered with the left or right hand.

Although this may seem arbitrary, there is no need to worry; a change from right-hand to left-hand traffic is very complex and, therefore no longer feasible.



Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-_and_left-hand_traffic

When was the first chariot built?

A full-scale model of a chariot in a grave in Crete can be dated back to 1 900 B.C. Chariots were already used in Central Asia.

You will find further information here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chariot

High lift rescue vehicle

High lift rescue vehicles save human life even at great height.

The fire brigades have high lift rescue vehicles to save people in dangerous situations at great height. They thus secure the second escape route for trapped persons as required in building laws.

High lift rescue vehicles are special fire engines used to rescue persons, animals and goods at great height. For this purpose a turntable ladder is used. A "turntable ladder" is the movable part of a high lift rescue vehicle which is located above the truck chassis.

Have a look here:
German Youtube Video

On 26 June 1974 ...

... the cashier Sharon Buchanan scanned a ten pack of chewing gum according to the UPC standard (Universal Product Code) in a supermarket in Troy, Ohio.

The code had, however, already been developed and patented at the end of the 40s by two students of the Drexel Institute of Technology in Philadelphia: Joseph Woodland and Bernard Silver.



Further information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode

When and where was the first bar code scanned...

... thus changing the world of logistics forever?