Endless Sphere

Wow, that is nice!!

I had a few vendors with their engineers alongside them and they told me that they learned everything they know on ES. To me, the whole point of ES is to provide fertile soil for building jaw dropping awesome electric things, and so it felt amazing to have been part of all this. That is nice to hea...

Great show. Sad that i didn't encounter more ES folk there. Missed Justin, Luke, and a few others. I was wearing my forum avatar on my shirt OR an endless sphere shirt, so that i wasn't hard to find. Ah well, it was a cool show nonetheless. Nothing made my eyes pop out of my skull, except for a demo...

I'm not budging from windows 7. I'll use it until i can no longer use it. Windows 7 is only dead when compilers stop compiling for it. I expect it to last for longer than 2020. I haven't installed a single patch other than .net runtimes since SP1 because Microsoft has been sneakily crippling the OS ...

Fans are very cheap.. a new charger is a lot less cheap.

The best cooling strategy is to overspec the discharge of your battery so far that you can wail on it all day and never notice a heat difference between ambient temp and battery temp, even in the low 5-10% range of the SOC where internal resistance exponentially climbs as you approach 0% SOC. I star...

All direct drive motors have drag. It just depends on how much. Falco had some half decent laminations in their initial which decreased drag over the motor they considered was their competitor, the Crystalyte H35xx series.. But any motor, other than the most garbage of 9C clones has those 0.35mm lam...

Why print things? there's several virtual printers out there ( such as cutePDF ), and we can save 'da trees using them.. :) Anyway i'd scratch the Mitsubishi Mirage off your list.. it is a miserable car and real world fuel economy results is a 1-2mpg better than the Yaris IA.. you also have 1 less c...

Hope i get to shake hands with that guy there.. i'm driving

Falco can't be tuned, upgraded, or serviced easily. It's a completely proprietary system. I looked at their offerings years ago and they were making false claims about efficiency and the merit of 5 phase hubs.. it's all bs. There are some Chinese $150 hubs out there with better efficiency, lol. I su...

Solid state batteries by 2019? wow. https://electrek.co/2018/09/11/solid-state-battery-startup-bmw-hyundai-samsung-breakthrough-electric-vehicles/ In a press release, the company listed a bunch of advantages that they claim their technology has over current batteries: 2 – 3X higher energy vs. curren...

Yeah, the hatchback Yarises are nice looking cars. I have found the service manual for everything i've ever owned by visiting car specific forums. Someone always has a link up somewhere. OR.. pay the toll for access to the service manual and liberate it yourself with screenshots, compile it into a P...

Lol, paying to see a service manual..

You know how fast those get pirated?
You know how easy it is to pirate those?

I hated the Yaris I drove as a rental. As I remember, it did not ride well and the there was no feedback from the steering or controls so it was hard to drive smoothly. Maybe they got better, but would not look at those. Mazda 2 is something we considered before the Fit and it was OK. Mazda 3 is a ...

Surly also likes to use those weird dropouts.

Man, you are rude. Spitting in my face over a video i sent because you picked up on an anecdote about old cooking books and you missed the entire point of the video because you didn't watch it.

I had a feeling i was wasting my time trying to be helpful.
Adios.

Well, i'm 6 feet tall and i've sat in the back before. No tilting of the head is required. They've done a good job maximizing the space in that car. Actually they could have had a lower roof, at least in the front.. because there's like half a foot of extra space for my head. So as far as head room ...

Yup Marty.. Aerodynamic designs often look compromised that way. The Mazda2 chassis shares some characteristics with the Model 3's front end.. IE it's tapered, and kind of has a duck bill thing going on. The one thing it doesn't have... is proper under panels. Here is a car that will do 55-60mpg at ...

I'd say i'm in the testing stage. Willing to test out various theories and see if they improve my health. Eggs and fat did not help, and since animal fat contains toxins, eggs choline, i was glad to get rid of them. Here Consumer Reports exposes the tainted meat food chain: This is serious contamin...

Benefits of blueberries for artery function: Clinical research: Summary by Dr Greger https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7rRvZGYhWw Dr. Greger is a hardcore vegan that is well known to cherry pick and misrepresent research for his own agenda. Proceed with caution, because you are getting a highly bias...

That's the biggest pain in the ass dropout i've ever seen.

Time for another bike.

Well, it's a free country, you can believe what you want.

Okay, i take that back. High fructose corn syrup might be worse than sugar because of how it interacts with the liver. Non alcoholic fatty liver disease rates keep going up and it's suspected that HFCS is the culprit.. But since most of our sugar is no longer cane sugar, maybe that distinction doesn...

'heart healthy' is an industry label from the AHA and there is some pretty horrible history behind that label, as well as that organization. Give this a watch if you are interested in learning more. fvKdYUCUca8 I don't boil veggies because the only good thing about them ( nutrients ) gets leached ou...

Well, if you have a very beefy 36v battery, but you wanted to do around 30mph.. 6T would be the ticket.
I'm sure it was specced with 20" wheels in mind though.