Tag: engineering

June 27, 2018 at 12:51 pm

DARPA Engineers are Reinventing the Wheel with Shapeshifting Tires

DARPA Engineers are Reinventing the Wheel with Shapeshifting Tires

This is straight up bananas

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February 27, 2018 at 2:54 am

Casting the Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

Casting the Mirror for the World’s Largest Telescope

The castings of the 15-metric ton, off-axis mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope forced engineers to push the design and manufacturing process beyond all previous limits

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July 14, 2017 at 4:03 pm

The World’s Largest Super Soaker Shoots at 2,400 PSI and 243 mph

The World's Largest Super Soaker Shoots at 2,400 PSI and 243 mph

It can split a watermelon in half

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June 15, 2017 at 10:57 am

Former NASA Engineer Builds Custom Car Horn With Distinct Sounds for Every Situation

Former NASA Engineer Builds Custom Car Horn With Distinct Sounds for Every Situation

Sometimes you just want to give a little courtesy beep. And sometimes you want to unleash the sound of 1000 jet engines

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April 18, 2017 at 2:48 pm

Drone Captures World’s Largest Tunneling Machine Breaking Through After 4 Years Underground

Drone Captures World's Largest Tunneling Machine Breaking Through After 4 Years Underground

The 1.7 mile (2.73 km) tunnel in downtown Seattle will house a double-decker highway

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January 18, 2017 at 2:47 pm

4K Slow Motion: Visualizing Combustion with a See Through Engine and Phantom Camera

4K Slow Motion: Visualizing Combustion with a See Through Engine and Phantom Camera

The team at Warped Perception built a glass head for a Briggs and Stratton engine to make the combustion process visible

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December 12, 2016 at 6:25 pm

Guy Builds Miniature Single-Cylinder Engine Out of Paper and Revs It Up

Guy Builds Miniature Single-Cylinder Engine Out of Paper and Revs It Up

Aliaksei Zholner built this incredibly small, single-cylinder engine entirely out of paper and it works!

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November 16, 2016 at 7:24 am

Monster Sinkhole in Japan Repaired in 48 Hours

Monster Sinkhole in Japan Repaired in 48 Hours

A sinkhole roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool opens up in Fukuoka, Japan and is repaired in an amazing 48 hours

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September 20, 2016 at 9:47 am

Turkish Engineers Build Full-Scale, Driveable BMW Transformer

Turkish Engineers Build Full-Scale, Driveable BMW Transformer

Autobots, roll out!

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August 23, 2016 at 10:18 am

Panama Canal Timelapse from a Ship’s POV

Panama Canal Timelapse from a Ship's POV

12 hours, 8000 photos. A tanker goes from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the Panama Canal

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