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[jhel...@gmail.com]

That's one expensive hackathon. Fun, but expensive

Tell you what-- you find some pals to pay for the gear and
I can help get a bunch of quality peeps to give it a go.

Cheers
J

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Exoskeletons....and related startups...can we get a demo for a hackathon in the Bega Valley in May

drllau <drlawr...@gmail.com>: Jan 30 07:43AM -0800 > So...some solid points there about the criticality of the power source..certainly for military purposes. Military always have headaches with logistics as fuel supplies are always an Archilles heel ... as the Germans found out in WW2. Any domestic solution (at least for the filthy rich) can probably put in an floor-grid for inductive charging (if on heel, lower centre of gravity) so you can get away with parasitic energy harvesting for low-powered sensors and just continually recharge your capacitors. Of course the $$/kWhr is not cheap but then most new technology tends to target the well-off initially. I fear decent exo-skeletons will wait for radical energy conversion breakthroughs otherwise the MechWarrior is going to be the norm for military.   [image: Image result for energy storage density comparison]   >people who are physically strong can now be matched (potentially) by people with lower lifting capacity there's actually a surplus of unskilled labor (globally) so the target domain would be areas where robotics don't have the task flexibility or where skilled powered micro control (orthopedic surgery?) is necessary as compared with gross movements   > As regards an Aussie exoskeleton startup play...hmmmm...love to hear of any movement in this space..... I suspect the capital limitations for hard-core engineering are against the odds as Australia doesn't have DARPA equivalent.   Lawrence http://www.linkedin.com/in/drllau   On Sunday, 29 January 2017 20:25:30 UTC-5, Liam O'Duibhir, Director, SoccerFit wrote:

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