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Thingiverse Raves About 3D Printed Stirling Engine

Leigh Hutchens — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:34:42 +0000

Thingiverse, touted as “Digital designs for real, physical objects. A Universe of Things!” is a website for community sharing and feedback. Thinkiverse plugs itself is a place where creative, innovative people can share designs with the world, and the creators believe that just as computing shifted away from the mainframe into the personal computer, digital […]

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Six-Cylinder Stirling Engine Built by DIYer in His Garage

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 07:40:22 +0000

Stirling engines have been touted as a good alternative for current internal combustion engines, since they can be powered with mostly anything that burns and are much simpler than steam engines for small applications like running a car. Here’s a guy who built a six-piston Stirling engine, at home, just to prove that this old […]

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DEKA Revolt: First Hybrid Stirling Engine Car – Powered by Anything!

Ovidiu Sandru — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:03:45 +0000

Dean Kamen, a UK inventor, has just released to the public a modified electric Ford Th!nk, hacked in his DEKA labs. DEKA is his company located in Manchester Millyard. Kamen's modified electric car has a Stirling engine onboard, into the trunk. He uses the stirling engine mainly to defrost and heat the car, because the systems doing that are huge power consumers.

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