Building the solar car

Used with permission from "Chronicle" (WCVB-Boston).

Putting it together: the modular car

With the 10^5 Competition, MIT's Vehicle Design Summit (VDS) will leverage distributed innovation to build a better car.

Obscura Day at the MIT Edgerton Center

In the spirit of Doc Edgerton’s famous aphorism, “Tell everyone everything you know,” the MIT Edgerton Center opened its doors on April 28 to participate in Obscura Day.

Vehicle Design Summit

In 2006, Anna Jaffe '07, Robyn Allen '07 and Nii Armar '06, SM '09, launched the Vehicle Design Summit, a collaboration that included 25 college teams from across the globe to build within three years a plug-in electric hybrid car. More than 50 students from 21 universities came to MIT to ...

MIT Edgerton Center - Summer Engineering Design Workshop

This summer, a few dozen Boston-area high school students chose to spend their mornings toiling away with a variety of materials to create working marvels of engineering. Learn more: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/video-edgerton-workshop-0805.

Harold "Doc" Edgerton--How Fast Is Fast?

Called "the man who made time stand still," MIT Professor Harold "Doc" Edgerton delighted and amazed the world by retooling an obscure laboratory instrument and producing photographs that no one had ever seen before. Using a stroboscope, Edgerton captured moments in time that were too fast to ...

"Underwater Photography" (1964) - Science Reporter

This black-and white film features Harold "Doc" Edgerton interviewed by John Fitch about the technology and scientific applications of underwater photography for the MIT Science Reporter.

Edgerton Center Engineering Design Class 2010: Project Highlights

This summer's Edgerton Center Engineering Design class produced four awesome projects in four weeks: - A functional RC quadrotor built with commonly-available RC equipment and an Arduino microcontroller board. - A 4x3x(8x8) LED matrix screen capable, among other ...

Rookie vs. the RC Car (...in slow motion.)

Rookie (the dog) likes to chase squirrels. RC cars look like squirrels, I guess.

Intro to Doc Edgerton

B.W.D. Scooter Test Drive #2

The B.W.D. Scooter is an electric kick scooter with Both Wheels Driven by custom-built brushless DC hub motors. For more information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/first/scooter The hub motors built into each wheel are 3-phase, 14-pole brushless outrunners; the inside of the motor is stationary ...

B.W.D. Scooter Test Drive #1

The B.W.D. Scooter is an electric kick scooter with Both Wheels Driven by custom-built brushless DC hub motors. For more information, visit: http://web.mit.edu/first/scooter The hub motors built into each wheel are 3-phase, 14-pole brushless outrunners; the inside of the motor is stationary ...

B.W.D. Scooter Custom BLDC Motor - Test #1

Fast-forward to 1:50 to see it spinning! This is test #1 of the B.W.D. Scooter's first custom-built motor. The scooter is this year's Edgerton Center Summer Engineering Workshop project. B.W.D. stands for either "both wheel drive" or "brushless wheel drive," since the ...

Schlieren Flame

I just happened to be in the right place at the right time to see the creation of this awesome video of the Schlieren effect, an optical technique that highlights bent light. Here it shows heat convection coming off a candle flame, and later a blast of CO2 to extinguish it. Filmed at the ...

Design Tips: Power Electronics

This is what happens when I clean out my camera's hard drive... One last collection of videos that were left on my camera from this summer's project. With only a bit of power electronics background on the team, designing the motor controller was a learning experience. The final version works ...