Finally, we can recycle & upcycle ALL types of plastics 🛍
Finally, we can recycle & upcycle ALL types of plastics 🛍
#50 2022 | Sparkmate
How are you and your teams doing? Hopefully looking forward to the holiday season ahead, ready to charge up for the new year 💥💥💥
Here’s what we’ve put together for your weekly Spark News:
Make a Womp holiday postcard to win awesome prizes 🎄
Report, track and close issues FAST with Bugasura 🚦
Humanoid robot CyberOne plays the drums without missing a beat 🥁
Finally, we can recycle & upcycle ALL types of plastics 🛍
The Tribe welcomes Manon and Nicolas 👩💻👨🔧
💙 NEWS FROM OUR MATESMake a Womp holiday postcard to win awesome prizes 🎄
Our mates from Womp are getting the holidays started right: with a contest that you could win to give yourself a neat little present 😉
Womp is essentially the Canva+Figma for 3D models - one of the easiest ways we’ve found to create animations! And if you create an awesome looking postcard, you’ll get the chance to win:
🥇 1st Place: Meta Quest 2
🥈 2nd Place: Anycubic Photon Mono X2 3D printer
🥉 3rd Place: Huion Kamvas 13
The contest starts today, and submissions close on Dec 19th at 3pm EST. Winners will be announced on Dec 20th at 11am EST!
If you want to join, just start creating on their platform, and publish your work with hashtag #Postcard!
🤸♀️ FUN PRODUCT WE LOVEReport, track and close issues FAST with Bugasura 🚦
“A bug tracker that focuses on helping close bugs and removes all the other noise.”
Is there a certain app you and your teams use to keep track of product bugs and issues? What about if you have multiple projects, and want to look at everything at a glance, especially if you’re being onboarded on different ones?
This is where you’ll find Bugasura perfect.
Their tagline: the “Issue Tracker that Jira couldn’t build” 🔥
Features:
Everything you need to close bugs. Issue analysis, statuses, lists, severities, tags used, etc.
Visual. Each analytics and progress are shown with the help of graphs - making it easier to find which to prioritize.
Collaborative. Easily assign different mates to help with closing the bugs.
Plug and play. With your favorite apps: From Slack, Figma, to Github, to even Jira, Chrome and Android.
More modern, minimalistic UI. A breath of fresh air from most other issue trackers!
Who it’s for: Product teams, managers
Price: FREE until you need >5 users. Pricing then starts at US$5/user/month.
💭 TECH FOOD FOR THOUGHTHumanoid robot CyberOne plays the drums without missing a beat 🥁
How awesome would it be to watch a band of humanoid robots? 😂
Chinese electronics company Xiaomi introduced CyberOne in August and shared a video of it playing drums. This was after getting lots of feedback from the public who don’t have backgrounds in robotics - that they’re more interested in seeing humanoid robots do things that humans can’t easily do. In this case, consistent hand-foot coordination in motion and rhythmic control, so they decided to use drumming for their demonstration!
CyberOne is 177cm tall, weighs 52kg with an arm span of 168cm. It can easily imitate human movements supporting up to 21 degrees of freedom in motion with real-time response speed of 0.5m for each degree of motion.
🌱 TECH FOR SUSTAINABILITYFinally, we can recycle & upcycle ALL types of plastics 🛍
Around 80% of all plastic end up in our oceans or landfills. Why? Mostly because there hasn’t been ways to recycle most types, such as soft plastics or mixed plastics. Now, 2 companies are pioneering in making it possible: Plastonix and Elemental Recycling 🎉
Plastonix developed technology that can mix and process any material (those that we can recycle and can’t) to turn them into chips and powder.
Elemental Recycling has gone a step further, by developing and selling plastic recycling machines - that take any kind of plastic and upcycle them into high purity graphite and graphene (used to make smartphones, electronics of all types). We can expect them to launch to customers in Q1 of 2023 already!
💥 WHAT’S ON @ SPARKMATEThe Tribe welcomes Manon and Nicolas 👩💻👨🔧
It’s always exciting to bring more top-gun engineers to the tribe 💙 and here we’ve got 2 to introduce to you ;)
Welcoming:
💻 Manon Lecuyer - as Product Engineer, focusing on front-end and back-end software development
🧰 Nicolas Gonnet - as Product Engineer, focusing on hardware development
PS: If you know a crazy talented engineer - let them know we’re building the most exciting organization for ambitious makers on the planet! Lead them here 👇
Exciting things are happening every day ⚡️ Follow us on social media to stay tuned!