A small landing wheel assembly deploys at low speeds to help stabilize the vehicle in bi-mode and augment the auto-alignment during vehicle-to-vehicle docking. The automated docking mechanism allows for automated and quick connection. The docking connectors are situated fore and aft of the vehicle on the docking side lower body panel. Both front and rear wheels use roll axis longitudinal steering to decrease the turning radius and mitigate the limited steering of the front hubless axle. The rear wheels are powered by separate electric motors. When in quad-mode the front tires collapse outwardly to traditional standard width tires for better separation. When in bi-mode, the front tires split and expand to provide more stability and better longitudinal center of gravity. DescriptionThe Lane Splitter has hubless steering. So, the folks at argodesign, (including Ian MacDowell, Charles Hurst, Brian Seiler and of course Mark Rolston) and I started brainstorming. Mark Wilson from FastCo Called He wanted to know if I could help him out with a quick turnaround design for this article. I wonder why? I wonder if it has to do with IP? Plus, for some reason, there are no OpenDesk models available at the SketchUp Warehouse. The models were complete and fit together, but the documentation was less than stellar. I then rendered in KeyShot the above image. In fact I downloaded the machine path files for both the Roxanne chair and the Olivia table, and built 3D models in SketchUp to see how they went together. Still, it is interesting and some of the designs are really nice.
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Most of their products are manufactured in China by the thousands, shipped en masse to a local store and sold at margins less than the cumulative markup of a local service fabricator plus the designer royalty. At this point I can't imagine a local service fabricator can be as cheap as the supply chain for IKEA. I'm trying to have the Roxanne chair (above) quoted locally to see the cost and will report back on what I find. My guess is it's not quicker and I bet it's certainly more expensive. The thinking is with no shipping, no inventory, and no traditional store markup, the products can be delivered quicker and less expensive, while also allowing for minor changes in customization. Designers create furniture designs which can be downloaded from the Internet and pay to be built (CNC machine-cut) by a local service fabricator while paying a 10% royalty to the designer- thus cutting the middleman out. Though I'm not sure if it will work, it is intriguing. They want to do to Ikea what Uber and airbnb are trying to do in their respective industries- namely cut the middle man out. Spent the weekend doing some research and came across the OpenDesk website.
It can upload images, edit posts from your favorite blogging platform, and even supports creating posts in Markdown (though I wish I could go back and forth between the blog post and the MD). BlogsyA real peach of a blog post editor for the iPad.
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And, it's a full CMS, which means it's easy to manage all the content. In fact I've commissioned my own framework, which I hope to introduce soon. There's plenty of contemporary and responsive templates available plus designers who can customize them. Plus, because they are hosted by Google, Blogger sites receive premium search indexing, which is a bonus. It's owned by Google, and they're plenty reliable for me.
The Solution BloggerAwhile back I stumbled on Blogger as my choice for a web hosting provider. I use my iPad much more than my desktop for this sort of thing as it's much more contemplative and I do most my writing and browsing on it.
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I also need to be able to do manual backups as well as exports to formats I can use elsewhere. It needs to not go down, and to be able to handle whatever traffic comes its way. I think I've settled on a pretty much hassle-free system. I've been on the search for a really good personal and small business website strategy and accompanying toolset.