Cool Stuff
3D CAD Catalog – Toshiba Motors PART of the Week
For the first CADENAS PARTsolutions “Part-of-the-Week” for 2013, we’re featuring a very cool, EQP series Low-Voltage motor. This electric motor, rated for 40hp at 900 rpm is built to suit a wide variety of industrial equipment, machinery and applications.…
MoreABB Robotics Transform Peperami Packaging Line into Snack-Sausage Ballet
Thanks to the Robotic genius’ at ABB, our needs for perfectly packaged pepperoni are promptly appeased (try saying that three times fast). The ABB FlexPickerTM IRB 360 system makes short work of a tedious task, aligning and packing “peperami” snacks…
MoreHeavy Metal Robots
Heavy Metal Robots! There are few things HEAVIER than Lemmy Kilmister and his band Motorhead, the original Speed-Metal Punk-Band, influencing everyone from Metallica to Alice in Chains. How can anything possibly be heavier than that? Maybe if the band is…
MoreShooting the Loop! Re-enacting childhood matchbox car fantasies
Honestly, this clip has ALL of the essential elements to make up a pretty awesome video feature. An outrageous idea based on a children’s toy – Apparently daredevils in England are going back to their roots, hatching a plan to…
MoreKnow your PARTsolutions team: Adam Beck
Describe your role at CADENAS PARTsolutions: As the Marketing Manager I am responsible for much of the external communication. I spend a lot of time working on our website, email and marketing collateral. Tell us about some of the…
MoreThe Amphibious Jet Man
You know we love outrageous engineering innovations here at CADENAS PARTsolutions, and since our last “CRAZY COOL” post was, well…a table (but a dang cool table, right!?) We knew we had to really offer up one of the wildest, weirdest and…
MoreSkydiving from Space – Part II – Jump Wrap-Up!
Part of our Series: Crazy Cool Stuff from Around the Web Red Bull and Austrian Felix Baumgartner have successfully engineered the world’s highest skydive attempt. The project was five years in the making, and even the final days came with plenty…
MoreEngineering the $150,000 Dinner Table – The Fletcher Capstan
Now, I know what you are thinking…”A table…for $150k… what’s it do… feed me and then clean-up the dishes?” Well, it’s still a round dining table, which you and five family members eat at it like any other table. This…
MoreWorld’s Fastest Lawnmower
Part of our Series: Crazy Cool Stuff from Around the Web – This post comes to us form the Bonneville Sale Flats in Utah. This 70 year old MANIMAL takes the land speed record for riding lawnmowers – 96.3 MPH!! He…
MoreSand Flea Jumping Car!
Part of our Series: Crazy Cool Stuff from Around the Web – This post comes to us from some our favorite creative engineers at Boston Dynamics. The “Sand Flea” robot looks like an ordinary remote control car, but this little…
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