Fluidic amplifier/hydraulic transistor 3D model preview
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It's a fluidic amplifier. A small stream of fluid deflects a large stream, in effect, amplifying a pneumatic signal. If you want more details, I wrote about it in my blog: http://mymakerblog.wordpress.com/2013/05/28/fluidic-logic-and-3d-printing/ You can test it by holding the pieces together and blowing simultaneiously into the power port and one of the control ports. It's pretty freakin amazing that it works. :) I should also mention that this has already been patentedin 1974: http://www.google.com/patents?id=tZAzAAAAEBAJ&printsec=abstract&zoom=4#v=onepage&q&f=false