This Koenig-modified Porsche 930 Road Runner could sell for nearly $200,000 at auction. The wild fiberglass body panels on the 911 Turbo are pure ‘80s excess and extravagance. The 911’s 3.3 ...

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[Mark Aren] purchased a pair of Turbomolecular pumps (TMP) sans controllers, and then built an FPGA based BLDC controller for the Turbomolecular pumps. A TMP is similar to a jet turbine ...

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It’s not every project write-up that opens with a sentence like “I had this TURBOVAC 50 turbomolecular pump laying around…”, but then again not every write-up comes from someone with a lab ...