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Functional Paper V8 Engine
glitch0 writes "This V8 Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.), is fully functional. It features many moving parts which include "a compound crankshaft, a rapid cooling fan, 8 rods, 8 pistons and a complex compound gearbox etc." The engine is powered by 2×1.5V D Batteries and weighs 2.98kg. From start to finish this model took one year to design and construct. There is even a D.I.Y. kit in the works that will be released shortly at the price of $85 USD. What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?"
A model is NOT a functional engine.
I was looking for a way to get my paper dolls around town without having to drive them myself.
Don't click on the link above; it doesn't give any more information than what's in the submission. Go to the source and get more information there.
I built a chimney coal starter out of paper this morning. It was fully functional, burned brightly, and lit the coals on fire!
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Crap.. I shoulda got some videos of it in action - then I too could of been posted on
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Can we please rename this a "V8 Model Engine"... simply saying it's a "V8 Engine" makes one believe it is an actual, functional engine, which got me wondering how the heck they got combustion to work without having the whole thing literally go up in flames.
...I once built a paper airplane with two fully functional jet engines.
If I could, I'd destroy you all.
"This V8 Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.)"
Isnt a motor and an Engine the same thing, how can the engine not have a motor?! WTF?!
Looks hard to wipe your ass with to me....
Already been done.
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if they used the original web site http://www.yeesjob.com/v8engine.htm
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This V8 Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.) Wait wait wait! The engine is made entirely out of paper...except for the motor?!? Motor != Block. Engine == Motor. Damnit, man.
does that thing have a Hemi?
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A motor is electric, an engine uses some other sort of fuel.
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Hrm... really makes me want to know how you could get an internal combustion chamber made of paper that doesn't burst into flames...
Oh, and check out the real source of all that material for alot more detailed information.
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I don't think a paper model of a combustion engine turned by an electric motor qualifies as a "Functional V8 Engine." But that's just me...
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When you get to the real site, it becomes clear that this is a project by someone who does paper models as a business and as an art. You don't get that impression at all from the "blog", which actually looks like something machine-generated by stealing copy from other sites.
I think something like this should be in many schools, or at least tour to schools, so that kids can see and understand the theory behind internal combustion engines. I knew until grade 10 that it had something to do with the gas exploding and pushing the piston to make something turn, but the details like the exhaust expulsion, fuel injection, and camshaft, etc, was lost on me until I saw it in pictures. Then for shop class, we tore down a two stroke engine.
It would be great for budding engineers and mechanics who don't have a parent that routinely fixes their car engine at home like they did in the good ol' days, to see something like this.
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It doesn't seem as impressive to brag about a "V8 Engine made entirely out of paper, with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.)" - that's kinda like saying, "Sushi made entirely out of rice paper, with the execption of a few parts (fish, eel, etc.)"
But it IS a cool looking model!
Not necessarily. Even in your average gas engine, the ratio of air to fuel is 14:1. Air makes up the majority of the intake charge. There would not be enough liquid fuel present to leak out. However, I doubt that a paper model engine could be built strong enough to contain the compression required to create downforce on the piston once the charge is ignited. Much less contain the explosion itself.
Wow. What a worthless reply this was.
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It seems we have a natural, non-pollutant way for traveling, saving nature from the wraths of smog everywhere...
Not noting that it uses said nature to make the vehicles themselves, causing more destruction than before. But hey, can't make an omlette without breaking a carton of eggs, or two
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What kind of fuel does a search engine run on?
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Before their server is totally burned down, here's a coral cache of the page:
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http://www.yeesjob.com.nyud.net:8090/v8engine.htm
Cache of the videos:
http://www.yeesjob.com.nyud.net:8090/images/movie
http://www.yeesjob.com.nyud.net:8090/images/movie
http://www.yeesjob.com.nyud.net:8090/images/movie
At least the real page doesn't call it a "Functional paper V8 engine", but a "V8-engine paper model". I guess this adds "paper cuts" to the list of workplace injuries for mechanics, eh?
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so would import cars be made out of rice paper?
For the same price I can get a Spinblade Heli from Radio Shack, and it's a real flying heli with a real motor (vs a model of a motor)
Not to grouse, but in the last year there has been a lot of companies offering RTF aircraft for under $100, I think slash should do a story on a few of them since it's so close to christmas.
Oh great, not in addition to all the oil changes, engine treatments and tune ups I have to worry about termites too!
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This is NOT a functional engine, it is a model. A functional engine made out of paper would most likely burn.
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And though working on import autos are origami from hell (hard to reach around bent sheet metal). But this takes the cake!
Life is not for the lazy.
Henry Ford made a car from hemp. Google is your friend...
I tried to make a paper magnet, but I had to power it with a real magnet.
What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?
Can't we start with getting a working engine?
What is the airspeed of a fully laden swallow?
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Strictly speaking a motor is a mechanical device that converts electrical energy into mechanical energy. Its converse is the generator which converts mechanical energy into electrical energy.
An engine is a mechanical device that manipulates a thermodynamic variable (temperature, volume, pressure, or density) to result in an output of mechanical energy via a thermodynamic process. Hence, Brayton cycle engine, Rankine cycle engine, Otto cycle engine, etc.
The efficiency of a motor is expected to be above 90%. The efficiency of an engine is expected to be below 40% (except some really exceptional Brayton cycle engines or some really extreme circumstances).
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Excellent explaination, my friend.
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This guy should talk to CraftROBO.
Especially his Notre Dame is cool, the parthenon too but no friezes!
Would be nice if someone provided info on techniques so people could build anything they like, perhaps with some software.
The engine is interesting but why? (and humidity) was on my mind.
Also there in fact are 3d printers (like those using LOM method I think) that make a model by laminating many sheets of paper together. Seems to be a superior way to build an actual paper engine, since the blocks you get are actually quite hard, though you can peel sheets off if you really try.
Damn. I thought you meant some company makes paper beachware...
I was gonna say that I needed to invest in some of those for some girl friends of mine...
Would you kindly mod me +1 insightful?
How come nobody has mentioned, http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060910666/002-19 26716-9392801?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v =glance
I'm sure every geek has tried making one?
I've got a working one, took me about a week and a half.
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Back in my day, we didn't have no D cell batteries or paper...why, we just turned a crank inside a containment dome made of parchment. :)
(Hey, every second post is saying this, and I didn't have enough moderator points to mark them all all "redundant"!)
Thats not a paper doll you have there.
What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?"
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Its definately more powerful then what i've currently got in my car.
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your comment is a dupe.... who cares... grow up... this site is more about discussion than anything. More discussion about technology has gone down in the halls of slashdot than anywhere else on the web.
As far as I can tell every comment left at digg.com was written by 13-16 year olds.
So an article popped up on digg.com a few days before slashdot. Big deal, hasn't ruined my day.
The best thing about digg is that it's drawing people like you out of here and leaving people who want to have real discussion, people who don't want to pollute the posts with "DUPPPE!!!!"
Not true. The two are not used at all consistently.
Another poster already mentioned the most common motorcycle, and motorcity. How about "motor cars", "General Motors", "Outboard motors", "Motor Oil", etc.?
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>What comes next...a fully functional car made out of paper?" I guess the paper boy could use it ...
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You want to impress me make one out of legos.
Reportedly NASA is building a rocket entirely out of paper. Except the engine and wiring. Oh, and the hull, and most everything else as well. In fact, screw the paper.
Total nonstory. It's a MODEL engine, which is run by an electric engine. How did this submission make it past the editors?
No, Engine != Motor.
Engine - Converts chemical energy to mechanical energy.
Motor - Converts electrical energy to mechanical energy.
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When will people learn that the two are NOT interchangable? An engine is a type of motor, but a motor isn't a type of engine. Get it right people.
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Looks like the midnight Black Friday sale at ChumpUSA is causing most of the /. readership (read: 75+% of american geeks) to not be around. Can this be called the Black Friday Effect?
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I see just a couple problems with this model.
1. I don't see the valve gear anywhere. No cam, no lifters, rockers, valves, or valve springs.
2. No induction system. Nice exhaust though.
3. Fan blades on cooling fan are facing the wrong way. the fan should draw air towards the block, not blow it away from it. (This has little do to with the block itself and more to do with the fact that the radiator is usually in front of the engine, thus the fan draws cool air towards it. Having the fan blow into it causes an overheat due to a bubble of stagnant air and high-temp engine bay air being blowin into the radiator.)
4. Title is misleading. Thought they meant a real V8 engine. It's just a 'V8 visible model" thing.
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You think that all matters after spending your adult life driving in a parkway and parking in a driveway?
Come on, just because it's popular doesn't make it right.
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The 1st and only engine that can be repaired with white out!
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bottom of said engine:
http://www.yeesjob.com/v8engine-07.htm
The Paper Clock always fascinated me. I stumbled across this in an Edmund's store in Toronto several years ago, and built it; it's a large project, 160 pieces, but it actually is constructed entirely out of paper (included in the book) and a couple of paper clips (and some rocks for weight in the weights).
It has a pendulum, gears, two hands, and can wind up and keep time! The design is ingenious, and apparently comes from an old book the other found in a book store (of german origin, I believe).
Fryer's Kits also had a more simplified paper clock, with just a single dial that rotates with the time; I won't link to them, since their site redirects to a non-existant domain now. Does anybody know where I can find this plan now that Fryer's seems to be defunct??? (They also had a free plan for a paper trebuchet that could launch a grape 30 feet.)
Paper construction of kinetic models fascinates me; it's such an elegant demonstration of construction ingenuity. I would love to see other examples that people might post (other than simple dancing animals and such, which seem to be mostly what one finds when searching the 'net for moving paper models).
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Not nearly as impressive though, they have what, 4 moving parts?
I always thought a clear plastic model of an epicyclic gearbox would be good. I remember helping my Dad rebuild the gearbox of our boat, which was a simple reduction box with a cone clutch and reverser. Of course if you wanted to do it "properly" you'd build a model of a simple automatic gearbox - ie. two epicyclics and a "straight through" clutch.
Engine made entirely out of paper with the exception of a few parts (motor, wires, etc.),
So the engine is paper, exept the parts that make in an engine.
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Because the asshat on that blog direct linked to the vids ...and we know the killing power of /.
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http://www.yeesjob.com.nyud.net:8090/images/movie
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant and others
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An engine can be almost any sort of device. Think about these: search engine, steam engine, difference engine, seige engine, cotton engine. Only one manipulates a thermodynamic variable (temperature, volume, pressure, or density) to result in an output of mechanical energy.
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Does anyone still remember the Trabant? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabant
Actually though, this only had a two stroke engine, so this could be an upgrade for it!
Does it come in goldenrod?
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A model... a year... WHAT WAS THE POINT!
...its been done!n dyCarl/aboutArtist.htm
...its been done!
...its been done!: www.barenada.com/blog_general_entry.shtml%3Fentryi d%3D002518+a+year+wasted&hl=en
So you can mold paper fiber into shapes and let it dry and harden!
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So you can mold some material into the shape of a V8 to see how it works!
http://www.discoverthis.com/visible-v8.html
So you want to waste a year of your life!
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I would have been more impressed if they mashed tomatoes and cast them into fluid-functioning V8!
OH WAIT... that's been done!
http://www.v8juice.com/
This guy I knew made a compleate wooden car, with a wooden engine and wooden seat and wooden wheels. The only problem is it wooden go.
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The first fully functional engine that uses power instead of genearating it. This produces, what? negative ? bhp? Although I like snow myself.
At least it is curb-side recyclable once you're done with it.
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Uh, what? You say you have an engine that "generates" power without using any? If so, I think you're going to become very famous very fast. Conservation of energy, anyone?
Yea yea, you know what I mean really :)
My car is entirely made out of paper, except for the car part of it.
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The naiive beginner student pilot will always answer: (1)Lift and (2)Thrust.
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For airplane builders, there is another famous quote: "An airplane cannot fly until the total weight of all the FAA paperwork is at least equal to or greater than the weight of the aircraft itself.
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There was this car made out of wood. The body was made of wood, the frame was made of wood and the engine was made of wood.
Guess what?
It woodn't run.
....are and have been made out of paper/wood, off the top of my head I can remember:
A British Leyland car made out of plywood for export to the third world in the '70's , can't remember the model but its on display at the British Motor museum at Gaydon in the Midlands. www.heritage-motor-centre.co.uk
The Eastern German 'trabant' where paper(instead of fibreglass) and resin was used.
Of course the Engine/running gear is metal in both cases, but a lot of research is going on at the moment into ceramic composites for use in engines
Almost every part on a car can be substituted (at a cost) by a non metalic alternative, but metal has one great advantage from an enviromental perspective, it is almost always possible to recycle it cheaply.
... it was called TRABANT the cardboard little Mercedes!
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