So I finished lunch with my sister, arrive to my friday lecture 10 min late. My professor is at the front of the room talking about the drawings on the board of history of UWs dynos (dynomometer). Wow, so interesting (I was wondering why I went to class). No five minutes later he says,"well today I was thinking about making the class a little more interesting. Since it's friday I thought we could take a walk downstairs and see the dynos." Ok, could be interesting. Pehler decides FAC eeded to start and he ditches. I decide to stay. Good decision numero uno por la dia.
The prof explains what he was telling us in the classroom, except with the real engine and dyno in front of us. Still kind of boring. Then he brings in his grad student buddy and he explains more/gives us a presentation. The dyno can model vehicle emissions testing, better than the EPA does right now. OK, a little cooler. Then we move over to the single-cylinder dyno and he explains why no one uses them in real life modeling because of all the drawbacks to non-simulation of the other six cylinders. Then he goes on to enthusiastically explain how he and his team stuck it to the industry and made it work. In fact, they wanted to show-off, so they decided to make the dyno play a song, based on the resonance frequencies of the hydraulic pump. He started with "On, Wisconsin". The prof then explained how people weren't that impressed, so he decided to give his team a challenge of making the dyno play a Bach violin concerto. IT DID.
I am being a huge tech dork right now, and i'm not going to explain how crazy it is that this machine can play this song, or how many hours it took for the grad students to program such a pointless thing as a song to be played by an engine, but that was SWEET.
I'm going to now be late for my next class due to blogging. Maybe this next one will be even cooler... It won't but at least I'll be in Michigan by midnight.
The prof explains what he was telling us in the classroom, except with the real engine and dyno in front of us. Still kind of boring. Then he brings in his grad student buddy and he explains more/gives us a presentation. The dyno can model vehicle emissions testing, better than the EPA does right now. OK, a little cooler. Then we move over to the single-cylinder dyno and he explains why no one uses them in real life modeling because of all the drawbacks to non-simulation of the other six cylinders. Then he goes on to enthusiastically explain how he and his team stuck it to the industry and made it work. In fact, they wanted to show-off, so they decided to make the dyno play a song, based on the resonance frequencies of the hydraulic pump. He started with "On, Wisconsin". The prof then explained how people weren't that impressed, so he decided to give his team a challenge of making the dyno play a Bach violin concerto. IT DID.
I am being a huge tech dork right now, and i'm not going to explain how crazy it is that this machine can play this song, or how many hours it took for the grad students to program such a pointless thing as a song to be played by an engine, but that was SWEET.
I'm going to now be late for my next class due to blogging. Maybe this next one will be even cooler... It won't but at least I'll be in Michigan by midnight.
posted by Bruhaha at 12:17 PM
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