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Video: How Does an Airbrush Work?
This is a short video that explains how an airbrush works. It is part of the newly organized “Airbrushing for Modelers 101” web pages
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Article: A Question of Hardware
Will vehicles in the future be able to repair themselves, aerodynamically adapt to wind conditions or, if necessary, even mutate from a sporty two- into a family friendly six-seater? How smart materials are going to shape the automobile of tomorrow. https://www.schaeffler-tomorrow.com/tomorrow/220/index.html
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Article: The Great Debate: Air vs. Hydros
Air or juice? It’s the age-old debate that’s drawn a ton of opinions, so in this issue we’ll be going over the pros and cons of each suspension application. For the most part, these systems were designed to give us the stance and height adjustment we need, and while they’re similar in many ways, there’s…
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Article: Ford looks to geckos to boost the recyclability of its cars
In recent years, the Ford Motor Company has aggressively sought to solve environmental problems related to its products while reducing production costs. Wasted wheat straw often burned by Canadian farmers has been blended into a plastic feature of the Ford Flex to reduce petroleum use. Plastic bottles have been converted into fibers to cover the…
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Video: Biomimicry- How cars rip off nature
Engineers, scientists and architects are constantly using inspiration from nature in their quest for innovation and with good reason. Why not cheat and get a couple billion year head start in your design process. On todays episode of B2B, we’re going to look at how nature inspires the auto industry to build not more eye…
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Video: How butterflies inspired a new type of paint
Cypris Materials has developed a tunable structural color coating that can be applied directly to surfaces as a paint. Their technology can improve building and automobile energy efficiency by reflecting UV, visible, and infrared light, and it expands the available color pallet while eliminating the use of toxic pigments and colorants.
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Video: How low-rider graphics are painted on cars
Pablo Prado of Kandy and Chrome goes over some of his custom paint work for Lowriders. https://www.businessinsider.com/how-low-rider-graphics-painted-on-cars-2021-1
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Video: Metals & Ceramics- Crash Course Engineering #19
Today we’ll explore more about two of the three main types of materials that we use as engineers: metals and ceramics. We’ll discuss properties of metals, alloys, ceramics, clay, cement, and glass-ceramic materials. We’ll also look at the applications of our materials with microelectromechanical systems and accelerometers.
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Video: What’s the best fuel for your car?
Dig into which fuel— gasoline, electric, biofuels, or electrofuels— is both affordable for consumers and sustainable for the planet.
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Video: Why F1 Engines are Built with Sand
Sand printing is similar to 3D printing; layers of 0.25mm thick sand are ‘printed’ onto a jobbox with a layer of chemical binder in between allowing for complex 3D shapes to be made, slice by slice, layer by layer. It’s so good that F1, LMP1, LMP2, WRC, WRX and Moto GP use this tech to…
