Steam powered Raspberry Pi pico
twitter.comThis is so cool. I hope they are burning coal to produce the steam to go full steampunk.
Someone should do a water wheel powered one next.
> I hope they are burning coal to produce the steam to go full steampunk.
That's a commercial off-the-shelf hobbyist steam engine, they prescribe using smokeless fuel tablets like [0].
Coal would just make a bunch of soot and a big mess in general.
[0] https://www.amazon.com/Esbit-1300-Degree-Smokeless-Tablets-E...
I wonder how efficient a water will would be? Made with current tech, bearings, etc.
I don't think modern gears and bearings will improve efficiency by more than a few percentage points. Most of it is in the size of the wheel, and the energy of the water.