CONNECTED magazine n°5
EPFLOOP - 3rd place at the Hyperloop competition
Nothing was certain for the EPFLOOP team from Switzerland when they completed the “intent to compete form” in September 2017 and decided to participate in the competition for the first time. The EPFLOOP team made their way through all the qualification steps and was one of the 3 teams allowed to launch their pod in the 1.6km vacuum tube at Hyperloop test track adjacent to SpaceX’s Hawthorne CA hea
SUN, CARS AND STUDENTS
The 2017 edition of the prestigious World Solar Challenge will be held in October. The Dutch team Solar Team Twente have been getting ready to win.
FROM NANOTECHNOLOGY TO ASTRONOMY
It is impossible to observe outer space through a telescope with a deformed mirror. How can you ensure ultra-precision positioning and compensate for any deformation?
Beyond connectors
LEMO’s long experience and solid expertise in the field of connector and cable assembly has now beenextended by offering complete interconnection solutions.
Sculpteo: the success of a factory in the cloud
"There began to be a lot of talk about 3D software,3D objects and 3D printing in 2009” explains Clément Moreau, co-founder of Sculpteo. “For us, it was a new revolution in the history of industry. So we started to get ready for when the big wave would arrive…”
Printing an exact copy of the patient
In the printer are two polymer materials owned by 3D Systems: the material which will “hold” the finest elements and the building material itself. Once it's printing, the machine super- poses – one by one – layers 32 microns deep.