In solid geometry, the sphericon is a solid that has a continuous developable surface with two congruent, semi-circular edges, and four vertices that define a square. It is a member of a special family of rollers that, while being rolled on a flat surface, bring all the points of their surface to contact with the surface they are rolling on. It was discovered independently by carpenter Colin Roberts (who named it) in the UK in 1969, by dancer and sculptor Alan Boeding of MOMIX in 1979, and by inventor David Hirsch, who patented it in Israel in 1980. (Wikipedia).
Sphericon—The Shape That Meanders Instead of Rolls
In this video I show you the sphericon and talk about how it works. I also show you a homemade version of the sphericon you can make at home using coins. Hexagonal Sphericon STL: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2999598 Original Sphericon STL: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3013544 M
From playlist Amazing 3D Printed Objects
Molecular Gastronomy: What is Spherification?
At the Exploratorium, Norm investigates spherification, the technique of turning any kind of food into caviar-like balls. Find out more about the Exploratorium at http://www.exploratorium.edu/ Watch more science and technology videos at http://www.tested.com
From playlist Food!
Blender Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) Problematic Deflections
Demonstration of a bug in Blender's particle system in combination with SPH-Fluids. http://www.kostackstudio.de
From playlist Random Blender Tests
From Sphericons to Countdown dice
How we made a better countdown/spindown die, inspired by sphericons. Countdown d24: https://www.mathartfun.com/thedicelab.com/CountdownD24.html Thanks to Alexandre Muñiz for the idea to make a countdown die based on a sphericon. My article on Rolling Acrobatic Apparatus: https://www.ams.
From playlist Dice
Enjoy a small collection of explosions from our preliminary tests of the prototype of what is to become Project Stomper.
From playlist Project Stomper Videos
This animation of the turboprop engine show single spool configuration of this type engines. Soon we are going to release the other versions of the same engine.
From playlist Turbines
Building Drone Rotors - PART 2
Part 2 of a multi-part series covering the construction and testing of large multi-rotor propellers. We apply the first coat of epoxy in this video.
From playlist Drones
Robotics is a team sport, bringing together people with varied and sometimes surprising skill sets—from marine helicopter mechanics and machine learning PhDs, to puppeteers and chocolate-makers. Meet some of the X team who are teaching robots how to learn, and hear why diverse perspective
From playlist Robotics