Maybe you already know that I’d made a fiat 126/500 engine before. Which was smaller and easy to print with internal moving parts; pistons, crank, fan etc (It is here).
Later I’ve improved it quite a bit and added space for interior electronics for operating it, a reductor dc motor to power it and volume for leds simulating spark plugs.
There are two versions, the sport and the standard as seen below 😀
sport version (left) and standard version engine models.
The engine models can be hand cranked or ran by a small reductor DC motor located in place of the actual engine’s starter motor. Read more for more information and links.
This is a design for use as a table or a in-vehicle clock. It utilizes a DS 1307 real time clock chip and powered by a pic 12F683 microcontroller. The power can be supplied via a standard USB cable.
Read more for more informatin, renderings, step by step assembly photos, STL files for 3d printing as well as source C codes for the microcontroller. Have fun building it.
This is the Fiat 126 Vettura Urbana concept (or ‘city car’ concept, if you translate the Italian… everything sounds better in Italian), revealed in 1976 and designed for Fiat by venerable designer Giovanni Michelotti, who penned lots of nice stuff you haven’t really heard of. His 1961 Alpine A110 was alright, mind. This particular vision of the future was based on the teeny 126 city car, and although small, it wasn’t a toy.
The body STL including the engine can now be downloaded at the following pages. There is also a version with separate STL files for each piece, sliding doors, operational engine parts. The engine parts, pulleys, pistons etc, can be driven by a small electric motor hidden in the transmission which is also connected to the rear wheels. So this model can drive with electric power. With additional work, can be made to run with remote control. A challenging and very nice project to build.
This product and project is aimed to be used in vehicles for generating turbo and various other sound effects.
This is how the system works
Read more for downloading the product case STL files for 3d printing, CCS C source codes, Proteus simulation, circuit schematic and PCB layout files and also 70 different sound effects I’ve found on the net and especially prepared for this project.
We used to put small propellers on the handlebars of our bicycles when we were kids. Now we got older but we can still do the same thing to our cars or motorbikes. I’ve been designing some toys for big boyz recently.
There are several versions, all stl files are included in the following pages.