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I am in a electrical and fluid power systems class at school. We are doing a small group project that has to combine electrical, pneumatic, or hydraulics. Needs to combine 2 of the 3. Small budget of like $75-100. He doesn't want to see another can crusher. Give me some ideas guys. Struggling hard to think of something. Electro-.... Seems easiest but from there we are stumped. Let's see what you guys can come up with. Cheap. Kinda simple.

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Build a miniature hydro electric dam that lights a light bulb or a school mascot or something

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Could package it up as soething that you can set in a stream as a portable phone charger or something similar

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Or do you need something that has a mechanical function that performs a physical task like moving an object or picking something up?

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How would I do the hydro part though? A well expansion tank? Just trying to do something kinda simple and not huge.

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Get an emergency tire pump (12v), an air storage tank, a pressure release valve, a pressure transducer, some pvc pipe and a tee, and some marbles.

Make an automatic marble air gun. Pump builds pressure in the tank, when set psi is reached the release valve vents. Valve is located in a horizontal length of pvc pipe with a vertical piece tee'd in. The vertical piece contains a stack of marbles (magazine). Weigh marbles and use physics to calculate theoretical velocity.

EDIT: change marbles to ping pong balls if safety is a concern, like this will be demonstrated inside a class room.

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Can do the same thing with a 2 liter bottle, air spot bbs, and an air compressor too.

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Vacuum cleaner, hose hooked to exhaust port. Use the air pressure to demonstrate how pressure over area equates to force. Can lift your friend up with a wood board and a few garbage bags underneath it. Or trim said garbage bags and make a hovercraft. Could grab some concrete form tubes and make rudimentary pistons



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Could make a heating coil out of some wire, car battery or two, use it to make steam and use the steam pressure to do something. Could grab a piece of PVC pipe and a valve, use it to shoot ping pong balls or something. I'll add that it wouldn't be a bad idea to get a pressure release valve like they use in air compressors so you don't have a bomb on your hands

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