Chapter 62: The giant chanical hand
Translated by , edited by drpetro.
To be perfectly honest, Ye Qing’s Monster Factory only had one real product — The rapid tal engraver.
The scooters were only an assembly product for his dad’s old factory, so now there was a question.
To expand and strengthen a factory by only selling a single product was the biggest joke ever.
Hence Ye Qing needed to figure out of the three new black techs, which one was easiest to make and will have wide reaches once it’s made.
[Titanium mory alloy] so far looked super easy. All it needed was to first build a tal slting center, but the slting center was just too difficult to build.
Ye Qing was prepared to wait until the raging miners had expanded the cavern to a certain extent, and build the slting center hidden in the cave and away from prying eyes.
Ye Qing opened up the last blueprint and carefully examined the artificial chanical limb.
When he was still in university, one of his profs said, chanical movent was one of the easiest topics in the chanical world, yet it was also one of the most complex.
Single joint chanical movent was super easy, to the point that a piece of magnet can easily do it. However, if looking to synchronize multiple chanical movents and perfect it, then the difficulty was through the roof.
Lathes were the perfect example. Back when the five axle CNC lathes was ruling the sky on the international scene, dostically we were still stuck with the three axles to get things done, as for the five axles, they were just like divine tool that you could only dream of.
The helper arm on the five axle lathe looked very much like a human arm. It could accomplish various degrees of accurate processing, yet it didn’t have a palm or an arm.
A hand has 14 finger bones, and 5 palm bones.
What does the five axle CNC lathes have?
Only a drill bit.
From this you could understand the difficulties involved in wanting to completely mimic human hand movents.
Yes, it was all the precision’s fault.
Without precision, all the artificial chanic arms could do, so far, is destroy. Hoping on these things to perform long distance surgery was like cutting open soone’s stomach to remove the appendix, but instead cutting out the intestines. Then when it was ti to sew up, instead of sewing up the cut, it stitches up the belly button.
Even with all those downsides, Ye Qing still had great expectations for chanical limbs. If this actually got researched, then don’t ntion the dical world, just the application within the transplant sector would be a complete jackpot.
A single excavator that could be as nimble as human arms, could easily out dig out three normal excavators. [ED: That a bit of an exaggeration, author.] [TL: Straight up foreshadowing.]
In dangerous situations, with the ability to control robots whose arms were as nimble as humans, don’t ntion using them to deactivate bombs, they could even shoot down aircrafts.
The problems with cars having a super difficult ti getting up and down mountains would also be solved. Just add four arms onto the car, and it becos a climbing cheetah. If that’s still not enough, then add four more and it becos a spider.
So far there are three ways to make chanical arms move: pneumatics, fluids, and electric.
Pneumatics were the simplest, fluids had the biggest strength, and electric had the highest precision.
This was an electric and fluid powered chanical blueprint, as it completely combined the advantages of both electric and fluid systems.
The blueprint was extrely detailed. Just with so enlargents, it was possible to see any parts’ structure and sketches.
Even if it was within the servo machine, there were countless coils of solenoids, which were suppose to increase the electric resistance within the control system.
After examining it for more than ten minutes, Ye Qing’s mind was literally blown and fried. Just the servo machine and hydraulic fluids within the electric fluid drive had already completely stumped Ye Qing.
Uhhhhh......
Let’s go examine the ionized environntal purifier for now.
The ionized environntal purifier, from the looks of it, could either be a negative ion air purifier, or an upgraded version of the electrostatic precipitators.
Those two types of equipnt Ye Qing was quite familiar with. Lots of factories had electrostatic precipitators installed.
Their working principle was very simple, through the release of ions, they cause oxygen or dust in the air to create static electricity. Through mutual absorption they increase in mass and drop out of the air. Then they are absorbed onto a piece of tal plate with an opposite electrode.
Then, after careful examination, Ye Qing found himself to have seriously underestimated all these new black techs.
The ionized environntal purifier, not only could it work in the air, it could still fire off special ions in accordance to the character of the surrounding pollutants even if it was put in the water. This would cause the pollutants to beco electrolyzed, and mutually attract each other towards where the machine was.
The ion transmitter was the central core of the machine. Yet with just a glance of the structural design, Ye Qing already gave up. Because that thing’s complexity was on par with that of a particle accelerator.
It was just better to further research the not so much simpler chanical limbs. At least much of the hydraulics and hydraulic fluids could be replaced with existing ones. As for those beyond human precision parts, they could also be made by the master artisans.
chanical limbs also included so movent capture equipnt. The movent capture equipnt wasn’t too difficult to make; completely possible to make with the present technological level.
Wanting to make a sample as soon as possible, Ye Qing called over several master artisans. Together they researched how to create the chanical limb with the available materials in the workshop.
The chanical limb was from head to toe a domineering black tech. Just the structural design alone was enough to force mass engineer layoffs.
The difference here was just like when a F-22 Raptor stealth fighter was put up against a WWII era propeller fighter.
The servo motors inside were the definition of being ahead of their ti. Having discussed everything with the master artisans, Ye Qing found that, if they were to use existing materials as replacents, then there was no way to make it as small as a human limb. It had to be at least ten tis larger.
The hydraulics beca much easier to make after enlargent, and stainless steel was more than enough to create the hydraulic parts and chambers. There were also piles of servo and stepper motors available in the workshop; used in for creating other machines.
Having cleared the engineering processes, Ye Qing had the master artisans begin work imdiately.
The hydraulics of the chanical limbs was sowhat like the hydraulic system on an excavator, except a lot more complicated. Ye even opened the Monster Factory app store to buy several more drilling platforms and stainless steel cutters just to raise the work efficiency of the factory.
Yet just when he finished his shopping, his father called.
“Your uncle and Xiao Hu’s going to be in Zhongyun tomorrow at noon. I’ve already booked a room at the Marriott to celebrate.” Ye Jiangning had been extrely happy since getting back on his feet. The ever increasing sales of the electronic scooters had him find back that confidence he had so many years ago.
“Uncle’s gonna co over?” Ye Qing was a bit surprised. His uncle, who lives out of the province, was really hard to et, but the two families had always been on good terms.
“Yeah, Xiao Hu just got accepted by our University of Zhongyun. So your uncle decided to specifically bring him over for sightseeing.”
The University of Zhongyun where Ye Qing graduated from, ranked in the top twenties within the national university rankings. So naturally it was a good choice.
Xiao Hu’s full na was Xu Xiaohu, and was his uncle’s grandson. When he was little he spent a period of ti with Ye Qing, and Ye Qing also quite liked the straight forward attitude of this little nephew of his.
“Oh right......” Ye Jiangning delightedly asked with hints of doubt: “Did you do so advertising on T.V. or sothing? How co I got a bunch of long distance calls this morning from scooter dealers across the country making purchases. I even gotten calls from towns right on the border.
“No? Don’t you know how much it would cost to do nationwide advertisents?” Ye Qing did so quick calculations and found that even if he sold both factories, he still wouldn’t have enough.
“Strange...... Our scooters are only known within Zhongyun, yet today the orders from across the whole nation totaled up to over 300..”
“Hold on a sec. Another long distance call, probably another scooter dealer looking to order.” The phone imdiately went on hold.
Two minutes later, Ye Jiangning finished his call and told Ye Qing: “It really was another out of the province dealer, and he ordered twenty right of the bat.”
“I asked the dealer how he got to know us, and he told that it was from a couple of youngsters who ca looking for the beautifully designed, long mileage, and aluminum cased scooters they saw on the internet.”
“The dealer went looking at the scooter market in Zhongyun and found us.”
“Holy shit, this is strange, I didn’t pay for any advertisents!” Recently Ye Qing didn’t even have ti to go online. So could it be that so user made so advertising post on so forum?
But that was unexplainable! If advertising on forum boards could produce that kind of result then where was the need for those owners to invite those stars to be their spokesperson, and pay for what advertisnt. All they needed to do was get a bunch of bots and they would be good.
Um...... if the posts weren’t erased that is.
Of course, expanding the sales route for the old factory was a good thing. On Ye Qing’s side, he could definitely keep pumping out more parts. It was just that the old factory needed to hire more people and expand its size again.
Ye Qing could even send over a master artisan as a trainer to train the workers at the old factory.
Before, when Qiao One was reporting what happened at Owen’s, Ye Qing had already found out about the master artisans’ ability to train others.
The master artisans, within the field of chanical research, was seriously more experienced and qualified than all of those so called chanical professors that Ye Qing t in university.
Having a master artisan as the trainer for regular workers was all their luck and fortune. Not only would it improve the quality of their work, but also the speed at which they would complete it.
We could try this tomorrow. With the disguise uniforms in hand, there was no need to worry about exposing the monsters.
A peaceful and quiet night.
Just when Ye Qing got up the next morning.
A strange looking thing that looked very much like the chanical arm of a Terminator sat there on the ground.
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