Air compressors are often loud, raucous machines – but they don’t have to be. [Eric Strebel] built a remarkably quiet compressor using parts salvaged from an old fridge. After several years of use, it ...

Compressed air is great to have around the shop. The trouble is, most affordable compressors are somewhere between “wake the dead” and “the reason Pete Townshend is deaf” on the decibel scale. But ...

Onwards and upwards in the overclockers’ heatsink game: The crazed coolant doctors at Thermaltake are now shipping what they’re claiming is the first case to feature a DC-inverter micro refrigeration ...

Infineon has introduced two demonstration boards for driving rotary refrigerator compressors. REF_Fridge_D111T_MOS (below) is a three-phase inverter with IMD111T-6F040 driver IC and IPN60R1K0PFD7S ...

How to make a simple, inexpensive vacuum chamber using a fridge compressor and a steel pot. Useful for degassing resin, ...