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This Week in Startups · Saturday, June 27, 2026

Skin Systems Tape Offers Real-World Aerodynamic Data

Lyle Davenport explained that his company's sensor tape measures pressure, temperature, and vibration at 500 Hz, with up to 100 sensors per vehicle. This data, combined with GPS and IMU data, creates a 'digital twin' of the car's performance in real-world conditions, unlike sterile wind tunnel simulations.

personLyle DavenportcompanySkin Systems

The tape

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So, uh, yeah, so so the tape itself, what we generate is pressure, temperature and vibration at 500 hertz. Uh, we can have up to 100 sensors on the vehicle at a time.
Lyle Davenport
We're able to really start to generate a picture of kind of a digital twin in the atmosphere in the real world.
Lyle Davenport
So this is, this is a car running in a wind tunnel as you can see, um, the data is very binary, right? The car sets on the treadmill, it starts spinning, the wind builds. We have fairly consistent pressure.
Lyle Davenport
Heard on This Week in Startups — “Why F1 Teams are Replacing Wind Tunnels with Smart Tape | E2305, published Saturday, June 27, 2026. Heardvine summarizes and quotes with attribution and timestamps, and links to the original everywhere.
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