Inside A Dutch Street Organ: The Art Of Mechanical Music-Making

[James]’ Mechanical Organ of Dutch origin has been around longer than he has, but thanks to being rebuilt over the years and lovingly cared for, it delivers its unique performances just as we…

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3D Printing Pneumatic Channels With Dual Materials For Soft Robots

Pneumatics are a common way to add some motion to soft robotic actuators, but adding it to a robot can be somewhat of a chore. A method demonstrated by [Jackson K. Wilt] et al. (press release, prep…

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A Display Powered by Air: 3D Printed Microfluidic Multiplexing

Can you build a display powered by air?After building a ring oscillator that runs on air pressure instead of electricity, I wanted to see if I could push mic...

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Because the back side of the glider's instrument panel is so crowded, I have moved the vario speaker to the space under the turtle deck, aft of the wing spars.

To make connections easier, I added some 3.5mm audio jacks and plugs to the speaker box and the long cable running aft. (2nd photo)

The first photo shows one audio plug and two jacks. What's up with that?

The standalone vario has an audio output, and the glide computer also has an audio output. They use different styles of sound, programmable with slightly different parameters. Now I can more easily choose and change which audio output I want to use.

This should end my soldering work. Tomorrow I'll be working on (third photo) all the pneumatic connections from the three pressure probes: pitot, static, and total energy...to all the flight instruments that need these pressure signals.

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Installing and connecting various glider instruments and avionics.

Electric wires are involved, and also pneumatic tubing.

This is the wiring harness for the transponder. The control head, to be mounted on the instrument panel, is already connected to the wiring harness. Two other electronic units will be connected to the harness: the transponder, and a precision GPS receiver that provides position information that will be part of the transponder messages.

The red and black wires are for 12VDC power. They will get connected to a 3 amp circuit breaker.

The controller head has a blue pneumatic tube that will be connected to the static probe...so that altitude can be reported in the transponder messages.

The small light gray box, with two pneumatic ports is the squat switch...to change transponder modes between 'on the ground' and 'airborne.'

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Noah Sheidlower's piece about NYC's first subway is fascinating - a pneumatic tunnel below Broadway that used air pressure to transport passengers in the 1870s. New York experimented with this technology decades before the current subway system.. Amazing to imagine passengers being whooshed through a tunnel by compressed air. #NYC #subway #history #transportation #pneumatic #innovation #broadway #untappedny https://www.untappedcities.com/nycs-first-subway-a-one-block-pneumatic-tunnel-below-broadway/?ref=daily-newsletter
NYC's First Subway, A One Block Pneumatic Tunnel Below Broadway - Untapped New York

In 1870, inventor Alfred Ely Beach developed the first NYC subway line running on pneumatics which ran for a block underneath Broadway in lower Manhattan.

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This video shows the automation mechanism used to stack the carboy during assembly line using pneumatic and liner actuator. All the work is done in blender and render engine is eevee.#blender #blender3d #mechnism #mechanical #automation #pneumatic #robotics #robots #engineering