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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: August 10 \| August 09 \| August 08 \| previous days \| by month and year Friday, August 10, 2007 Papercraft sterling engine that runs on coffee Dan sez, "Astromedia is a German science gizmo company that specializes in die-cut cardboard widgets: astrolabes, sextants, telescopes, etc. But this new one takes the biscuit -- a Sterling engine that works on the heat from a cup of coffee. Apparently, if you set it on a frozen compress ("Setzen Sie ihn auf eine Kaltkompresse..."), it runs for hours." Link (Thanks, Dan!) posted by Cory Doctorow at 09:36:41 PM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: August 10, 2007 \| August 09, 2007 \| August 08, 2007 \| August 07, 2007 \| August 06, 2007 \| August 05, 2007 \| August 04, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: