
If You Like The Sound Of A Thermoacoustic Stirling Engine, Check Out These Plans
[My Engines] has been doing some sterling work on Stirling engines for some years now. Their thermoacoustic engine is now finally far enough along to open-source, so the magic of collaboration can …
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The Birotary Engine Explained
Everyone generally knows about piston and rotary engines, with many a flamewar having been waged over the pros and cons of each design. The “correct” answer is thus to combine both into…
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A Two-Stroke Engine Made From Scratch Using Basic Hardware Store Parts
How hard could it to be to build a two-stroke internal combustion engine (ICE) from scratch? This is a challenge that [Camden Bowen] gladly set for himself, while foregoing such obvious wastes of t…
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Making EV Motors, And Breaking Up With Rare Earth Elements
Rare earth elements are used to produce magnets with very high strength that also strongly resist demagnetization, their performance is key to modern motors such as those in electric vehicles (EVs)…
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3D Printed Axial Compressor Is On A Mission To Inflate Balloons
[Let’s Print] has been fascinated with creating a 3D printed axial compressor that can do meaningful work, and his latest iteration mixes FDM and SLA printed parts to successfully inflate (an…
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Unbricking Trains, Uncovering Shady Behavior
The first clue was that a number of locomotives started malfunctioning with exactly 1,000,000 km on the odometer. And when the company with the contract for servicing them couldn’t figure out…
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Machining A Reciprocating Solenoid Engine
The reciprocating engine has been all the rage for at least three centuries. The first widely adopted engine of this type was the steam engine with a piston translating linear motion into rotationa…
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Machining A Reciprocating Solenoid Engine
The reciprocating engine has been all the rage for at least three centuries. The first widely adopted engine of this type was the steam engine with a piston translating linear motion into rotationa…
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3D Printed Engine Gets Carburetor
3D printed materials have come a long way in the last decade or so as printers have become more and more mainstream. Printers can use all kinds of different plastics with varying physical character…
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