[Peter Wirasnik] has been casting his own aluminum heat sinks. He’s working on capturing the heat from a car’s exhaust system and turning it into electricity, kind of like the candle generator. In the ...

In this video, I demonstrate the process of casting custom-sized aluminum bars for a project. The aluminum melts easily, ...

Casting metal at home is somewhat tricky, but there’s no denying the results can be quite rewarding. [FarmCraft101] put his incredible craftsmanship on display, and learned a few new things in the ...

When new technology shows up, it's up to a hot rodder to see if it's worth working into our way of building cars. As each newly accepted tech becomes the norm, a new wave of thinking bounces through ...

Aluminum is ubiquitous in our modern age, but it's surprisingly hard to produce alloys for it without putting up with significant waste from bad mixtures. MIT researchers Antoine Allanore and Samuel R ...