Benefits of quick release panels

I had a long conversation yesterday about the project and we also discussed the concept of having quick release panels. The original plan was to have connectors that bolt the panels together, this is strong but a reasonably ‘permanent’ solution. It also...

A quick note about the strength of the sphere.

The edge of the sphere will be reinforced with two overlapping pieces of aluminium extrusion, but will the rest of the sphere be strong enough? Well the sphere will be primarily supported by 8 castor wheels and the omni chains will also spread some of the weight onto...

Update #3 – We passed the first HAXLR8R selection test!

Feel Three is still in the running for HAXLR8R… Our pitch went well but the competition is fierce Two of the founders spent an hour yesterday morning pitching to one of the HAXLR8R partners via Skype. It went well, but they have a hard job picking just 15...

Add a couple of sharing buttons…

I made it easy to spread the word but getting the code to work inside the theme was a really pain. I eventually cracked it by making a simple page and embedding it into an iframe, crude but it works… I’ve also given everyone an incentive to click it by...

Vision Goal : Gear change haptics

One good thing that came my from exploration of counter rotation gyroscopes is an idea for haptics for the Feel Three platform. Now I know the motion simulator is one big ball of haptics but this adds a little more subtlety and range to the platform. I’m not...