October 22, 2014 at 09:53Hendo Flying Board - A Step Forward
Yes, this board is similar to the one Marty had from the second part of Back to the Future. Not so cool, but not a movie anymore. But forget for the next couple of decades about the opportunity to get to this office. Hendo's floating board is primarily a demonstration of technology that is designed to change the world.
Having shown the visual use of the system for soaring above the ground, Hover seems to have fallen in love with all the fans of the Robert Zemeckis trilogy and successfully launched a Kickstarter campaign , which will result in a minimum of $ 250,000. At the current pace of fundraising, they will reach this level in a matter of days.
Now you can stand on a hoverboard unless on a surface made of aluminum or copper, it is uncontrollable, it makes a loud piercing sound, which is generally meaningless, but its creator Greg Henderson - after whom the company was named - believes that the principle of Hendo Hoverboard can save entire houses from natural disasters, lifting them into the air, and become a replacement for the magnetic cushion of modern trains. Arx Pax, the parent company of Hendo, is responsible for the development of MFA (magnetic field architecture) technology.
To be one of the first to evaluate the capabilities of MFA and even try to implement your ideas on its basis, it is not necessary to send $ 10,000 to the Hover account (you need so much to get one of ten prototypes of the board). Enough $ 299 is enough, and you will receive the Whitebox - a development kit, which is a small white box that can break away from a metal surface by a couple of centimeters. Despite its compactness, it is able to withstand up to 20 kilograms of load. By the way, MFA is based on electromagnetism and the Lenz rule.
“The electromagnetic field of a magnet is the same across the entire surface and has north and south poles,” Henderson explains. “What if you take this magnet and create a magnetic field on only one side, and then combine it with other magnetic fields to focus and control their strength? This is Magnetic Field Architecture. ” According to Greg, the development of his team is absolutely safe, especially in comparison with other varieties of Muggles.
Josh Lowenson in his article on The Verge notes that the main problem that you immediately pay attention to is noise, comparing the work of a flying board with an air-raid siren. Arx Pax is going to get rid of it in the coming year, subject to successful financial support for the project. It is planned to solve the problem and, for example, energy efficiency - today's prototype can only lift a person for 7 minutes. The plans also include reducing the cost of Hendo Hoverboard, but now the company plans to provide its development primarily to those who are going to modify and use it in their inventions.
Transrapid 05
Back to the perspectives of using MFA. The movement of passengers and goods, using the forces of an electromagnetic field, is commonplace for more than a dozen years. Transrapid 05, the world's first magnetic cushion train, was created back in 1979. Today, Maglevs are the fastest type of land transport, which is characterized by relatively low costs for maintenance and electricity. The feature of the technology from Arx Pax is the cheapness of a meter of the road due to the lack of the need for expensive equipment of tracks.
But what about houses? Last March, Greg Henderson filed a patent., which describes a system that provides engines in the very foundation of the building, which, if necessary, can lift it. This is difficult to imagine, given that today only small objects rise by a few centimeters. However, in order to raise a larger volume and a higher enough strength, and the difficulty lies in managing and stabilizing what the company is currently working on. For research in this area, another box is used in the form of a cylinder Manta Ray, which can change the direction of movement.
Manta ray
Agree, it’s hard to remember a startup with such ambitious goals. If you look at the whole path, at the end of which Arx Pax will learn how to move buildings, now they have perhaps left the starting point. To design a controlled flying board, which costs several times cheaper than the current prototype and is for sale, is already a huge success. I would like to hope that they will succeed, but it is still far away from houses rising above the water. For some reason, it’s much easier to believe in managing climate and even tectonic processes in the near future than equipping houses with such technologies.
Based on The Verge's " I rode a hoverboard designed to save buildings from earthquakes and floods "
Having shown the visual use of the system for soaring above the ground, Hover seems to have fallen in love with all the fans of the Robert Zemeckis trilogy and successfully launched a Kickstarter campaign , which will result in a minimum of $ 250,000. At the current pace of fundraising, they will reach this level in a matter of days.
Now you can stand on a hoverboard unless on a surface made of aluminum or copper, it is uncontrollable, it makes a loud piercing sound, which is generally meaningless, but its creator Greg Henderson - after whom the company was named - believes that the principle of Hendo Hoverboard can save entire houses from natural disasters, lifting them into the air, and become a replacement for the magnetic cushion of modern trains. Arx Pax, the parent company of Hendo, is responsible for the development of MFA (magnetic field architecture) technology.
To be one of the first to evaluate the capabilities of MFA and even try to implement your ideas on its basis, it is not necessary to send $ 10,000 to the Hover account (you need so much to get one of ten prototypes of the board). Enough $ 299 is enough, and you will receive the Whitebox - a development kit, which is a small white box that can break away from a metal surface by a couple of centimeters. Despite its compactness, it is able to withstand up to 20 kilograms of load. By the way, MFA is based on electromagnetism and the Lenz rule.
“The electromagnetic field of a magnet is the same across the entire surface and has north and south poles,” Henderson explains. “What if you take this magnet and create a magnetic field on only one side, and then combine it with other magnetic fields to focus and control their strength? This is Magnetic Field Architecture. ” According to Greg, the development of his team is absolutely safe, especially in comparison with other varieties of Muggles.
Hoverboard testing takes place both on a flat surface and on a small halfpipe to demonstrate all of its management features that can not be compared with any sport.
Josh Lowenson in his article on The Verge notes that the main problem that you immediately pay attention to is noise, comparing the work of a flying board with an air-raid siren. Arx Pax is going to get rid of it in the coming year, subject to successful financial support for the project. It is planned to solve the problem and, for example, energy efficiency - today's prototype can only lift a person for 7 minutes. The plans also include reducing the cost of Hendo Hoverboard, but now the company plans to provide its development primarily to those who are going to modify and use it in their inventions.
Transrapid 05
Back to the perspectives of using MFA. The movement of passengers and goods, using the forces of an electromagnetic field, is commonplace for more than a dozen years. Transrapid 05, the world's first magnetic cushion train, was created back in 1979. Today, Maglevs are the fastest type of land transport, which is characterized by relatively low costs for maintenance and electricity. The feature of the technology from Arx Pax is the cheapness of a meter of the road due to the lack of the need for expensive equipment of tracks.
But what about houses? Last March, Greg Henderson filed a patent., which describes a system that provides engines in the very foundation of the building, which, if necessary, can lift it. This is difficult to imagine, given that today only small objects rise by a few centimeters. However, in order to raise a larger volume and a higher enough strength, and the difficulty lies in managing and stabilizing what the company is currently working on. For research in this area, another box is used in the form of a cylinder Manta Ray, which can change the direction of movement.
Manta ray
Agree, it’s hard to remember a startup with such ambitious goals. If you look at the whole path, at the end of which Arx Pax will learn how to move buildings, now they have perhaps left the starting point. To design a controlled flying board, which costs several times cheaper than the current prototype and is for sale, is already a huge success. I would like to hope that they will succeed, but it is still far away from houses rising above the water. For some reason, it’s much easier to believe in managing climate and even tectonic processes in the near future than equipping houses with such technologies.
Based on The Verge's " I rode a hoverboard designed to save buildings from earthquakes and floods "