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#426 – An Interview with Dean Pick

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Welcome Dean Pick, founder of Biperformance Development, Kinitics Automation and ShiftFX!

  • Linear actuator tech
    • 0h 1m 22s
  • Hydrolic and pneumatics actuators
    • 0h 1m 32s
  • Voice coils and piezo actuators
    • 0h 1m 57s
  • Electric screw linear actuators
    • 0h 4m 6s
  • Shape memory alloys
    • 0h 5m 34s
  • Nickel and titanium wires
    • 0h 5m 46s
  • Hysteresis
    • 0h 8m 19s
  • Material creates a crystal lattice
    • 0h 8m 27s
  • Current not related to the power output
    • 0h 9m 52s
  • Don’t actually sense temperature
    • 0h 11m 27s
  • Can have a very small cross section
    • 0h 17m 26s
  • Introduced by past guest of The Amp Hour John Davis
    • 0h 22m 27s
  • Process of getting to Kinitics
    • 0h 24m 23s
  • Biperformance Development Corporation
    • 0h 24m 34s
  • Pushing or pulling a lever to engage a clutch
    • 0h 25m 30s
  • How a clutch works
    • 0h 26m 26s
  • Transfer function for delivering torque
    • 0h 31m 43s
  • ShiftFX
    • 0h 33m 54s
  • 6 axis IMU
    • 0h 35m 47s
  • CAN bus devices know about bike positioning
    • 0h 35m 56s
  • This technology makes riding bikes more accessiblle
    • 0h 38m 38s
  • eBikes are another way more people will start riding motorcycles.
    • 0h 40m 59s
  • started bikes in 2002
    • 0h 41m 32s
  • Formula SAE
    • 0h 41m 42s
  • Starting from bare metal
    • 0h 43m 21s
  • Have an RTOS for board
    • 0h 43m 28s
  • 8 and 16 bit processors
    • 0h 46m 44s
  • Running physics engines
    • 0h 47m 49s
  • CAN bus protocols
    • 0h 50m 36s
  • We talked about can bus previously with Earl from Macchina
    • 0h 51m 24s
  • Another aspect of Biperformance.ca was consulting on biomass generation projects
    • 0h 56m 34s
  • Powerboilers
    • 0h 57m 17s
  • Fluidized bed
    • 0h 57m 50s
  • Giant industrial sandbox
    • 0h 57m 56s
  • Use sand to envelope the fuel.
    • 0h 58m 35s
  • Pulp and paper plants consume their own power
    • 0h 59m 21s
  • More recently they have started putting control of the plant on a tablet
    • 1h 1m 48s
  • Sawmill residuals
    • 1h 4m 15s
  • They did a project that was a “dam brush”
    • 1h 6m 58s
  • Need to run autonomously
    • 1h 10m 3s
  • Biperformance is looking to hire someone for firmware! Email hr@biperformance.ca
    • 1h 15m 56s

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