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Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

beacon_dave — Sun, 02 Apr 2023 18:48:00 GMT

After 3 years of waiting in anticipation, Green Envy finally managed to make its debut run at Lake Gairdner (Australia) during Speed Week 2023.

(Photo: builder and rider Eva Håkansson with Green Envy at Lake Gairdner in 2023)

As some may know, Eva is a strong advocate for STEM education and has featured previously in publications like STEM Women Magazine:
https://www.stemmagazine.com/swNOV18/7C19FF261A6146851BB8188846172C5E/swNOV18.pdf

Green Envy is a battery powered streamliner motorcycle designed and built to become the worlds fasted motorcycle. It was built in around 6 months ready for its debut in 2020 but due to the pandemic and bad weather it has had to remain in storage up until now. Even this year bad weather stopped play for 2 days out of 5 limiting the number of runs to only 4. Even so, 178MPH was recorded during the licensing runs.

(The sort of speeding ticket you don't mind being presented with.)

I've been following the progress for a number of years now and it has been fascinating. It is like many element14 projects here but perhaps with a little bit more horsepower in the electric motors.

Just about every aspect of the build has been openly shared on-line which could make for a great STEM type study.

RE: Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

beacon_dave — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 17:21:39 GMT

Well, I did try...

https://community.element14.com/members-area/f/forum/55579/top-tech-voices-podcast-episode-5-evs-the-race-to-electrify-power-management/227213

RE: Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

beacon_dave — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:20:00 GMT

Final run for this event, finishing with a good result. The weather held out, which is a factor when you have to ship your machinery and mobile workshop halfway around the world for an event window typically lasting just a few days. The next outing should be even more interesting now that a lot of the initial gremlins appear to have been evicted.

(Co-pilot Dolly looks pleased with this week's result.)

('Top Time of The Meet!' award)

RE: Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

cstanton — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 12:46:11 GMT

I feel this whole thing deserves a dedicated blog post with more info, this is so cool.

RE: Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

beacon_dave — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 15:29:51 GMT

Meta glasses and LED matrix displays at 222MPH...

https://www.instagram.com/eva_hakansson/p/DcfCSyCCF0Y/

RE: Green Envy finally gets to make its debut at Lake Gairdner

beacon_dave — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 17:50:54 GMT

Green Envy is currently at Bonneville this week ready for the Bonneville Motorcycle Speed Trials 23rd - 27th August.

Salt looks good, the shakedown runs on the runway last month went well, so hopefully a chance for some fast runs at long last.

RE: Do you want to build a computer?

DAB — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:01:55 GMT

I did bit-slice design in college.

Not sure I want to delve back into that world.

Do you want to build a computer?

stanto — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 22:55:36 GMT

Come on out and play~~~ (to the tune of 'do you want to build a snowman? from Frozen)

https://nandgame.com/

The interface is a little janky but it's still quite fun.

I'm not affiliated with whoever made it.

Mnemonic triangle

Knighthawk_140 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:36:18 GMT

Hello

Here is my custom mnemonic math triangle for constant current ramp work. I have this time and date stamped on youtube.

T = Time, V = Voltage, I = Constant Current & C = Capacitance

Enjoy

RE: Mnemonic triangle

Knighthawk_140 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 06:15:46 GMT

A how to guide to read mnemonic triangle.

A new day where the ELITE are EDUCATED

RE: Mnemonic triangle

shabaz — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:21:28 GMT

I think it's easier to derive from the formula; the arrangement of the four variables in a triangle doesn't work (whereas with three variables, the V=IR triangle makes sense, and same for other relationships like these).

Here's a four-variable representation which makes sense.. although this was quickly done with AI, so check it before use. The style however is (or was) very popular back when electronic calculators were not common (and often precise values are not needed, just a ballpark, because of component tolerances). This can be done for all manner of formulae (was popular for 555 timer calculations too).

RE: Mnemonic triangle

Knighthawk_140 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 01:09:19 GMT

AND ONE BECOMES TWO

RE: Mnemonic triangle

robogary — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 21:34:25 GMT

looks like a jet turbine :-) compression, ignition, delta temperature , delta Velocity then whoosh !

RE: Mnemonic triangle

dougw — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:22:05 GMT

👍

RE: Mnemonic triangle

michaelkellett — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:02:36 GMT

Well Doug, I probably won't forget that .....

But I think I'll stick with classical maths notation when I need to do sums.

RE: Mnemonic triangle

dougw — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:57:11 GMT

☺

RE: Mnemonic triangle

Knighthawk_140 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:29:02 GMT

🙂

RE: Mnemonic triangle

obones — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:57:24 GMT

And here I was thinking I'm the only one not to get this...

RE: Mnemonic triangle

michaelkellett — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:33:31 GMT

How interesting - to me it looks like those meaningless diagrams that people use to illustrate corporate time-wasting presentations 🙂

The equation is T = (C * dV)/I

or dV = (T * I) / C

(dV because its the change in V while I and C are constant)

I just can't see how the diagram shows that.

If a vertical bar means * and a horizontal bar means / then what does the horizontal bar below T mean ?

I can't work out a consistent decode of the diagram.

I know that some people associate colours with numbers or letters (synesthesia) - I don't.

Maybe "seeing" this diagram is a similar thing.

RE: Mnemonic triangle

chloro — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 12:38:59 GMT

Nice mnemonic! Triangles like this make it much easier to remember the relationships when working with capacitor ramp circuits. Simple visual tricks like these are actually very useful when doing quick calculations or explaining concepts. Thanks for sharing it.

RE: Maker construction kits

beacon_dave — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 19:26:04 GMT

Perhaps start off small with something like this cable car model built for BUGA 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJ-b3QGtqKU

and throw in a training factory or two along the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfOQQBFJTTs

🙂

Maker construction kits

beacon_dave — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 11:03:33 GMT

I spotted this maker product line from Fischertechnik recently, which may be of interest to the STEM community on element14.

Three platforms to get your mobile projects moving quickly and reliably.

Maker Kit Car

Maker Kit Omniwheels

Maker Kit Bionic

2024 Bionic Maker kit first impression (on YouTube)

Spotted some Fischertechnik industrial simulation in use at the Times Higher Education DUUK 2025 Expo the other week

Digital Universities UK 2025 - Day 2

RE: Maker construction kits

ralphjy — Sun, 13 Apr 2025 17:48:53 GMT

Nice looking kits. I've never owned/built Fischertechnik stuff but it looks fairly sturdy. Unfortunately, it will be quite a while before my grandson would be ready for one of these. In the meantime I'll try to get him interested with stuff that I already own with the expectation that it will not survive very long (he's not quite 3). I've been thinking of resurrecting an old Lego Mindstorms kit but that might be a challenge. Maybe convert it to use a more recent processor with WiFi/BLE and graphical block programming.

RE: Cable car with detachable gondolas (1:10 scale)

beacon_dave — Sat, 23 Sep 2023 21:41:29 GMT

Cable car with detachable gondolas (1:10 scale)

beacon_dave — Wed, 04 Jan 2023 19:16:48 GMT

Quite an interesting (and ambitious) project currently being built out of Fischertechnik constructor kit components.

1:10 scale cable car with detachable gondolas.

Due to be on display at BUGA23 in Mannheim.

It's pretty big...

...with lots of moving parts

and should appeal to those in the STEM community.

Video channel on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiPkmxDNxz8hcTikRfCa6Yw

Forum on Fischer Technology Community Forum:
https://forum.ftcommunity.de/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=5930

There are ongoing technical articles being published about the design in ft:pedia starting from issue 1/2021
https://www.ftcommunity.de/ftpedia/2021/