Month: May 2006

Vapor phase change cooling

Vapor phase change cooling

Chris writes “This project has been many months in the making and I finally had enough time to put this thing together. For those people that aren’t HVAC engineers, Phase Cooling involves using a refrigeration compressor to compress a gas till it changes phases to a liquid. This liquefied gas is then pumped into an […]

Cup Draw

Cup Draw

Here’s a low tech drawing cup project, might be fun to make a few dozens of these and let them loose – “Diane once taught a class in which a young student came up with the idea of attaching pens and a motor to a cup. Diane liked how the pens work as “legs” for […]

LEGO Pinball machine

LEGO Pinball machine

The NXTblog is doing a look back at pre-NXT Mindstorm creations starting off with this one, a LEGO pinball machine – “Designed and built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this fully functional pinball machine boasts a number of novel features, including a working coin slot (50 cent Euro coins only, please!), a functional tilt […]