Spanish university students create a Hyperloop made with a 3D printer

Spanish university students create a Hyperloop made with a 3D printer



The prototype has two meters long by one meter printed with the advice of BQ




   Students of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV) has built a Hyperloop model capable of reaching one thousand kilometers per hour through the use of renewable energies, with a 3D Witbox 2 printer.

The team of 30 students is carrying out a prototype vacuum-powered capsule with capacity for a passenger, which will be presented at the Pod Competition II, where it will fight in August with another 26 proposals.

  The design consists of passive magnets combined with electromagnets in the upper part of the capsule that allow precise control of the repulsion and magnetic attraction, and with it, the distance to the tube, so that the capsule is left levitating from the ceiling without the help of any external element.

Currently, the members of the project are immersed in the construction of a model of the prototype for the competition on the test track in California in the summer of 2017, said Vicén.

The prototype made by 3D printing will have two meters long by one and a half meters high, and will serve to test the technology that will be implemented later on the Hyperloop train, 20 meters and ready to carry more than 30 passengers at distances from 300 at 1000 km.

This new technology "will involve transport at low cost with high efficiency", he pointed out, although for the transfer of people "still more certifications and tests are needed".

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