Showing posts with label mechanical. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mechanical. Show all posts

Thursday, February 27, 2014

a new lease on life

Relearning how to walk is a small price to pay for breaking the shackles of mortality. I can move, affect, I CAN LIVE!
Poly-liquid metal frame. Micro-neumatic actuators. Gama-powered Quibit neural processors - this is going to be a good life...

Sunday, February 23, 2014

B.L.O.O.M. drive

If you need a lot of power for a long time, Nuke is the way to go, it's a bit dirty and there's a margin of error and not much of a way to fix a "flat" so to speak.
But you line that sucker up and put a shield between you and the loud part, you can go fast and longer than almost any other type of propulsion you can think of.
Of course you should only do that half of the way there - Silly thing like physics will want you to be spending the other half of your time slowing the beast down. to do that all you have to do is turn around.
Ever try to do a handbrake turn with a nuclear reaction going on in the trunk?

Long Haul Freighter

If you want to go a long distance you'll need a lot of support.
Nowhere more that space is the voyagers adage more true, "If you don't take it, you won't find it there."
Everyone thinks of water, food, radiation protection and general medical supplies. The thing most people forget is that people are a resource, you need them to fix, maintain, and problem solve. They put out heat and can even generate electricity in the right settings, put them to work on those long-haul rigs!

poor little engine

An engine! of course.
I'm not sure how the exhaust works - I suppose I was mostly interested in intake.

Space Yacht

Yachts are always the sexist, sleekest, and outright coolest things in space.
You'd like military to look this cool but you'll never get it when it's still built by the lowest bidder.
You know what else Yachts have? Speed.
This sweetheart is almost obscene the way it's built on a 6 port, Wagner bulwark-vented power-plant. If I didn't know better I'd think this was being set up to be a blockade runner, or at the very least a smugglers ship.
But no smuggler I know of can afford a bridge fitted with antique mahogany... Almost no smuggler I can think of anyway.

Hover PT craft.

Very loose sketch on a light duty patrol craft.

  • Crew:
    • 4-8 (pending boarding missions)
  • Underway:
    • No more than 3 days Nominal turn-around: under 24 hours
  • Mission type:
    • Scout, Police, Sentry
  • Performance:
    • 0G hover, +3GAccel
  • Drive:
    • Mag Lev (Manifold - see two large disks under main fuselage)

Not a Cute Star Wars Doodle

Not a cute Star Wars doodle! This is totally different because of the equine articulation on the locomotive limbs.I would consider this a "design improvement" pending approval from George.

Plane-a-copter!

Yeah this should work. How could it fail? It has 3 rotors!

The robot is in.

This is worse part about being shot.
No matter how many times it happens - I just get more and more worked up knowing the Corpsebot is tending to me.
(Of course I know the only reason I am here to complain about them is that they have patched me up so well, so often. I'ts not my fault I get shot!)
They look so clunky. They are SO loud. You can hear the hydraulics, the gears and even the nano-fibers contracting as they "Palpate" your body looking for secondary damage. They seem awkward and invasive but the truth is when they touch you it's the softest caress you can imagine. I don't think my own mother was as kind to me as a babe as a Corpsebot is after a gunshot wound.

Do cars have personality? What about cartoon cars?

 This is a Fast car, you can tell my how deformed it is. Low to the ground, so low the wheels bow out, "camber" to the gear heads. like a dog with it's ears back ready for a fight.... but these other cars...
These are friendly cars, they are just out to have fun.
sitting tall, hanging out, fast if they want but they rarely want that. After all, they're roadsters, they only look fast but if you've ever driven one you'll know they just want to cruise - the best type of "stop and smell the flowers" kind of ride there is.

Friday, August 2, 2013

Walker with missile pods

Walker with Missile Pods
Hans crawled up into his police issue (but very old) Walker for the hundredth time.
Sighing for the hundredth time as his knee banged into the hip hub-joint for the hundredth time. And for the hundredth time he might have started to question his life choices. There was no time for idle thoughts, the pre-locomation checklist for this rig was massive, it was all original from the Crate Wars and also included over 50 addendums and customization cross checks from the add-ons over the years.
Like the missile Pods...
Honestly! Who thinks to put explosive rocket ordinance less that 100cm away from your pilot's head?

It's funny to think this thing went from a machine of war 50 years ago to a police recon and special team tool and back to a war machine in it's twilight years.
"Just like me.", thought Hans and he strapped on the only helmet he ever owned.