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When comparing the efficiency of different wind turbine blade designs, [AdamEnt] found using a hair dryer wasn’t the best tool for the job. Enter his new 3D-printed wind tunnel. After …read more Continue reading Improving Wind Turbine Testing with a Better Air Source
If you watch the movies, there isn’t much to a wind tunnel. Just a fan and a tunnel, right? The truth is there’s a lot more to it than that, …read more Continue reading Wind Tunnel Uses the Last Straw
Characterizing the aerodynamic performance of a vehicle usually requires a wind tunnel since it’s difficult to control all variables when actually driving. Unless you had some kind of perfectly straight, …read more Continue reading Victorian Train Tunnel Turned Test Track
We at Hackaday are great fans of hands-on classroom projects promoting science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) subjects – after all, inspiring kids with technology at a young age will …read more Continue reading Optimize Your Paper Planes With This Cardboard Wind Tunnel
Typically, when we talk about wind tunnels, we think of the big facilities in use by the aerospace and motorsports industries. However, there’s nothing stopping you building a wind tunnel …read more Continue reading DIY Wind Tunnel Aims To Educate The Youth
Every wanted a mini wind tunnel to check the aerodynamics of scale model cars, drones, or other small objects? Then check out [dannyesp]’s mostly-3D-printed DIY wind tunnel (video, embedded below). …read more Continue reading Vapor Trails and Fan Make For Fantastic Photos in DIY Wind Tunnel
Sometimes a kid wakes up on Christmas morning and runs downstairs, only hoping to see one thing: a shiny new wind tunnel. This past December, that’s exactly what [SparksAndCode]’s son …read more Continue reading Homemade Toy Wind Tunnel Blows (Really Well)
When you think about it, for most of human history we’ve been a pretty slow bunch. At any time before about 150 years ago, if you were moving faster than …read more Continue reading Retrotechtacular: Discovering Aerodynamics with the Chrysler Airflow
This wind tunnel is a pile of junk and we love it! When making science and engineering accessible to kids, it really helps to show that it doesn’t require a …read more Continue reading Perfecting Paper Planes Peering Past Perspex Portals
Computer simulation is indispensable in validating design and used in every aspect of engineering from finite element analysis to traffic simulation to fluid dynamics. Simulations do an amazing job and at a fraction of the time and expense of building and testing a scale model. But those visceral ah-ha moments, …read more
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