Blister Labs: Technical Apparel Testing Update

GEAR:30

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Arts, Design, Skiing, Snow, Snowboarding, Sports, Outdoors, Bike, Technology, Gear

4.9 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Apparel testing, show pigs, & the underrated importance of ballpoint pens. Luke Koppa and Jonathan Ellsworth discuss these things with our Blister Labs colleague, Melanie Peddle, who is a faculty member in the partnership program between Western Colorado University & the University of Colorado Boulder. We also discuss some takeaways from the compression, abrasion, and UV tests we’ve been running; steps toward developing new standards; and more.

TOPICS & TIMES:

Mel’s Background (1:47)

Apparel Testing: Quick Overview (10:55)

What We’ve Been Doing & What’s Next (15:07)

Notable Takeaways (24:35)

Real-World Applicability (40:31)

Crashes & Close Calls (43:11)

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome back to Gear 30 on the Blister Podcast Network. I'm Jonathan Ellsworth,
0:12.2	and you can check out everything. We're doing and reviewing over at blisterreview.com.
0:21.2	Today, we are going to be giving you an update about one of the projects that we're working on at Blister Labs.
0:28.4	This one is our technical apparel testing project.
0:33.1	And so joining Luke Kappa and me is Melanie Petal, who is a faculty member in the partnership program
0:40.4	between Western Colorado University here in Gunnison, Colorado, and the engineering department
0:46.8	at CU Boulder.
0:49.2	And as you are about to hear, Melanie, or Mel, as I always call her, is a whole lot of fun. And that comes
0:56.9	across in this conversation too. So I think you're really going to enjoy hearing what we've all been
1:01.8	up to and where things are headed. And with that, let's get to my conversation with Mel and
1:10.8	Lou.
1:11.7	Here we go.
1:14.6	Well, I am very happy to be here in Blister headquarters in Elevation Hotel and Spa, right here in Mount Crested Butte, Colorado, with Lou Kappa.
1:27.0	And for the first time on Gear 30, Mel, Petal.
1:32.6	Mel, welcome.
1:34.1	I'm so happy to be here.
1:36.2	Well, we are happy to have you here.
1:37.7	And I'm excited to dive into some updates with what we've been doing with our apparel testing at Blister Labs.
1:48.5	So before we get there, though, I want you to tell the good people a bit about your background,
1:55.2	where you've come from, and how you got into this whole engineering world.
2:00.7	The place we need to start is that I do not have good eye hand coordination.
2:06.6	And the reason we need to start there is because the only sport that I excelled at in high school was running, long distance running, to be fair.
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