All articles tagged with #rope
Archaeologists show that a 35,000-year-old lochstab baton, with spiral grooves guiding cattail fibers to weave rope, reveals how soft technologies powered hafting and expanded Stone Age tools—while much daily life built around producing cordage remains invisible in the archaeological record.
The Hackaday column spotlights Dyneema rope as a near-magic, ultra-light, high-strength option for non-stretch cables in mechanical builds (notably cable robots), noting a 1 mm diameter with ~195 kg breaking strength and less than 1% stretch; it also mentions other niche ‘secret ingredients’ like high‑temperature tape, low‑temperature solder, and lightweight M3 PEEK screws, and invites readers to share their own go-to materials.