2.670 is a two-week class taught over IAP that gives students the opportunity to gain both machine shop and solid modeling experience while building a sterling engine. I took 2.670 during IAP of 2007. Most of my work can be found here.
Here are some pictures of my engine that my friend Cindy took at the spinoff:
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One of our assignments was to customize a part of our engine. I customized three different parts of my engine: the flywheel, the cylinder plate, and the bearing plates. For my flywheel design, I placed twenty-four hours on the outer diameter of the wheel to represent the hours in a day, and I designed the inner wheel so that the placement of the moon and sun corresponded to each hour. It was picked as one of the top 10 designs in the class. ( = Here are some pictures of my flywheel:
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...and some of my bearing plates and my cylinder plate.
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