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The V8 Denali I'm about to drive isn't known for its fuel economy. But the huge GMC SUV isn't your usual over-sized grocery-getter. It's outfitted with Tula's engine optimizing Dynamic Skip Fire technology that reduces the amount of cylinders running...
Different multirotors have different strengths and weaknesses, but they all share a common bottleneck: batteries. For its Yeair! quadcopter, a company called Airstier went around the problem by using good ol’ combustion engines.
Each of the quadcopter’s propellers has a 600w electric motor and a 1.6kW two-stroke engine. The result is a beastly machine that can carry 11lb. loads, go up to 62mph, fly as far as 43 miles and stay in the air for as long as 1 hour. A whole hour! Plus, in the event of a crash it’ll broadcast its whereabouts through smoke signals. Just kidding.
Did you see any electrical devices in Mad Max: Fury Road? Didn’t think so. There was no Batterytown either was there? Clearly gas holds the key to the future. Pledge at least ~$1500 (USD) on Kickstarter to receive a Yeair! quadcopter as a reward.
One of the cool things about 3D printers is that you can use them to make just about anything you can dream up. An engineer named Eric Harrell used his 3D printer to make all the components needed for a scale model of a Toyota 22RE engine back in January.
His next project was a logical step in the 3D printing of Toyota drive components with the making of a 5-speed manual transmission. The transmission is designed to match directly up to that 3D printed engine. It even has moving gears inside and shifts by hand.
Harrell based his designs off the real engine and transmission. That means if you can build these 3D printed reproductions, you might be able to work on the real things too. Check out the video below to see the tiny transmission in action:
Leave it to Australians to create the ultimate manly chainsaw. Whitlands Engineering is an Australian company that makes wood splitters, firewood processors, and other stuff. Apparently, just for kicks, they built a chainsaw powered by a 4.2-liter V8 car engine from a 1985 Holden WB Ute.
Forget it, you can’t buy one and then modify it to zip down the street to chop up other vehicles. The company is not mass-producing this design. It’s just for marketing. That makes me sad, because I could make an awesome Mad Max vehicle out of this thing.
Traffic jams would be a thing of the past since you could just cut your way through them.
YouTuber Solde expresses his love for vehicles and LEGOs by making scale models of engines using the popular building blocks. One of his most recent creations is a scale model of the W16 engine found in the Bugatti Veyron, one of the most powerful and expensive cars in the world.
While presenting his scale model, Solde chose to talk about the actual engine instead, so we barely know anything about the model itself. You’ll see though that it has lots of moving parts; turning the crankshaft from outside starts a series of movements inside the scale model, kind of like a reverse engine.
Be sure to check out Solde’s YouTube channel for more of his amazing LEGO engines.
Are you the type to have a spare engine sitting around your yard? I bet yours doesn’t grill meat. This one does. This beautiful V-8 engine is actually a working gas grill. Grill with eight cylinders of power.
To properly cook and char meats, they need to be seared to mouth-watering perfection. Only a V-8 engine BBQ grill will do that. Best of all, your meat will not smell and taste like gasoline. This propane grill features a stainless steel cooking grate and a diecast aluminum body, and priced at $695, it’s way cheaper than an actual engine.
This life-size engine block will have you making the best BBQ on the block. Rev it up and throw in some meat. This beast is hungry!
One of the cool things about motorsports is that you can count on some of the tech you see at the race track today making it to production cars of tomorrow. I really hope that holds true for the awesome engine that Nissan has shown off that will power the ZEOD RC racing car during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, when it’s not running on battery power.
This engine sounds puny if you just look at displacements. It is a 3-cylinder 1.5-liter engine that uses a turbo charger. That sounds like something you would find under the hood of the latest Nissan Versa.
When you see the big turbo mounted on the side and get a glimpse at the dyno, any thought of fuel efficient pansy engines disappears in a haze of heat and tire smoke. This little beast of a 3-cylinder engine produces 400hp and 280 lb-foot of torque at 7500RPM. What’s more impressive is that the entire engine weighs 88 pounds. In fact, the DIG-T R engine has a higher power-to-weight ratio than the latest F1 engines.
The motor will take over power duties for ZEOD RC car that will be able to make one lap of the 8.5 mile-long Le Mans race course on electricity alone. I really want this engine under the hood of the IDx Nismo, and the whole shebang sitting in my driveway.
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NASA is big on solar electric propulsion (the Dawn spacecraft uses it, for instance) for a good reason: while the engines aren't powerful, they supply thrust for a very long time before giving up the ghost. And it now looks like the agency is ready t...
For many gaming platforms, the litmus test these days is whether or not they get official support in Unity's game engine -- land that and many developers (and by extension, gamers) are likely to give them a closer look. Valve just got a big credibil...
The V8 Denali I'm about to drive isn't known for its fuel economy. But the huge GMC SUV isn't your usual over-sized grocery-getter. It's outfitted with Tula's engine optimizing Dynamic Skip Fire technology that reduces the amount of cylinders running...
