Talk-Polywell.org

If any of you are students, you can get the full (and I mean completely full) version of SolidWorks for $80, it will expire after two years.

As far as I can tell, available to anyone with a .edu email address.

--G

I have worked with a number of these micros before, the biggest difference seems to be in the tool chains and how fast you can get up to speed on them. One thing about the Infineon processors is that they supply a program called "DAVE"--Digital Application Virtual Engineer, or something like that. W...

I'll chime in to recommend SolidWorks. This is a very powerful program, and once you get the constraint based assembly idea, it goes very fast. I have my students mock up things using it all the time, and they get quite good quite fast. One of my students made a quick demo of how to use it (for an o...

So, given that *hopefully* Dr. Bussard has gotten his funding, is there anything to be gained from the design of the great convincer? I know MSimon has put in quite a bit of effort into the preliminary design, and I don't know if any of that will translate into something usable.

Just curious.

--G

The website looks great, but I think the Polywell font on the logo and title looks a bit cheesy. It has a certain geeky appeal, but I think a more streamlined and corporate look would go better.

We are tying to get taken seriously, after all.

Just my 2 cents.

--G

Just introducing myself here. I'm faculty (pre-tenure) at UC Santa Cruz, in the computer engineering department. My research is in the area of Guidance, Navigation, and Control (GNC), mostly I work with autonomous vehicles. I can do some pretty hard math, but I don't know much about plasma physics. ...