I love how genuinely excited this guy gets about his designs / inventions. Even projects that are a bust he still manages to stay positive and have fun.

[–] RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Might be involved, but segmenting the copper disk and selectively dis/connecting the segments with some kind of switches would dictate whether Eddy currents could flow or not..

[–] cassetti@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Damn, I felt really dumb after watching that video - half that math went over my head haha.

[–] _haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

"This seems really impractical, why would y-"

"BECAUSE I CAN!"

[–] lightsecond@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Super interesting. Thank you. While watching the video i was thinking of how cool it would be to have magnetic suspensions.

[–] I_collect_rocks@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I have mag ride in my truck. Pretty sweet

[–] only_lurking@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It bothers me that he called it a gearless bike. It's clutched, but also still geared.