{"id":12561,"date":"2015-05-11T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2015-05-10T14:35:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-10T13:35:13","slug":"digital-twin-concept-uses-a-raspberry-pi-to-model-a-mountain-bike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12561","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Digital Twin&#8221; concept uses a Raspberry Pi to model a mountain bike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2015\/may\/images\/640_liveworx-bike2.jpg?resize=560%2C374\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ptc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">International\u00a0company PTC<\/a> has unveiled a new concept known as a &#8220;Digital Twin&#8221;.\u00a0They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. These sensors feed into a Raspberry Pi which interprets the data and creates a virtual &#8216;twin&#8217; of the mountain bike. It is hoped that this concept can be used with any computer-designed item to test out prototypes and see how different factors affect performance. <a href=\"http:\/\/eandt.theiet.org\/news\/2015\/may\/ptc-digital-twin.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Read more over at The IET<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International\u00a0company PTC has unveiled a new concept known as a &#8220;Digital Twin&#8221;.\u00a0They took a CAD-designed mountain bike and mounted a bunch of sensors on-board. 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