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Between 2002 and 2003, my creative collaborator and I designed and fabricated a unique pneumatic engine.  Almost all pneumatic motors are turbine based, but ours is "piston" based.  Rather than using compressed air to spin a turbine, our design used the compressed air to operate linear actuators and then convert that linear motion into rotary motion by way of a crank shaft.  I presented this motor to SMC Pneumatics' U.S. R&D lab in early 2003.  They were so impressed with the motor that SMC hired my collaborator and myself to work in their R&D facility to develop the next generation of linear actuators.


LEFT: a short video of the air engine in operation
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  • ECONOMICS
    • Economic world-view
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  • PROJECTS
    • Underwater ROV
    • Pneumatic engine
    • Camera Steady-cam
    • Hydroponic Garden
    • Map of Estates & Water Mills