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#426 – An Interview with Dean Pick
Welcome Dean Pick, founder of Biperformance Development, Kinitics Automation and ShiftFX!
- Linear actuator tech
- 0h 1m 22s
- Hydrolic and pneumatics actuators
- 0h 1m 32s
- Voice coils and piezo actuators
- 0h 1m 57s
- Electric screw linear actuators
- 0h 4m 6s
- Shape memory alloys
- 0h 5m 34s
- Nickel and titanium wires
- 0h 5m 46s
- Hysteresis
- 0h 8m 19s
- Material creates a crystal lattice
- 0h 8m 27s
- Current not related to the power output
- 0h 9m 52s
- Don’t actually sense temperature
- 0h 11m 27s
- Can have a very small cross section
- 0h 17m 26s
- Introduced by past guest of The Amp Hour John Davis
- 0h 22m 27s
- Process of getting to Kinitics
- 0h 24m 23s
- Biperformance Development Corporation
- 0h 24m 34s
- Pushing or pulling a lever to engage a clutch
- 0h 25m 30s
- How a clutch works
- 0h 26m 26s
- Transfer function for delivering torque
- 0h 31m 43s
- ShiftFX
- 0h 33m 54s
- 6 axis IMU
- 0h 35m 47s
- CAN bus devices know about bike positioning
- 0h 35m 56s
- This technology makes riding bikes more accessiblle
- 0h 38m 38s
- eBikes are another way more people will start riding motorcycles.
- 0h 40m 59s
- started bikes in 2002
- 0h 41m 32s
- Formula SAE
- 0h 41m 42s
- Starting from bare metal
- 0h 43m 21s
- Have an RTOS for board
- 0h 43m 28s
- 8 and 16 bit processors
- 0h 46m 44s
- Running physics engines
- 0h 47m 49s
- CAN bus protocols
- 0h 50m 36s
- We talked about can bus previously with Earl from Macchina
- 0h 51m 24s
- Another aspect of Biperformance.ca was consulting on biomass generation projects
- 0h 56m 34s
- Powerboilers
- 0h 57m 17s
- Fluidized bed
- 0h 57m 50s
- Giant industrial sandbox
- 0h 57m 56s
- Use sand to envelope the fuel.
- 0h 58m 35s
- Pulp and paper plants consume their own power
- 0h 59m 21s
- More recently they have started putting control of the plant on a tablet
- 1h 1m 48s
- Sawmill residuals
- 1h 4m 15s
- They did a project that was a “dam brush”
- 1h 6m 58s
- Need to run autonomously
- 1h 10m 3s
- Biperformance is looking to hire someone for firmware! Email hr@biperformance.ca
- 1h 15m 56s