Simulations Index of working models Sheet 01 / 01

Simulations02 plates

Machines that work, built to be taken apart.

Each one runs on its own physics in your browser, from the water in a mill’s buckets to the energy budget of a 2026 Formula 1 car. Open one and change something. It answers the way the real thing would.

Fig. 0 Jansen linkage. One crank, eleven bars, and a foot that walks on flat ground. Move across it to turn the crank.

Index

02 plates Field & subject
  1. Ferrari SF-26 Vehicle dynamics
    Formula 1, 2026

    Lewis Hamilton's 2026 Ferrari, built from the launch photos and the new rules. Its wings move, its top rear flap turns upside down on the straights, and it laps eleven real circuits.

    Fig. 1 Speed, Silverstone, simulated qualifying lap. Computed from the simulation when this page was built.
    Lap
    1:27.868
    Pole 2026
    1:28.111
    Top
    328 km/h

    Plate 01Oct 2026Download as one file

  2. Overshot Gristmill Hydraulics & mechanism
    A working watermill

    Water falls into 36 buckets, its weight turns a 4.8 metre wheel, and an 18 to 1 gear train drives the millstones. Open the sluice and the whole mill answers.

    Fig. 2 Runner stone speed, spinning up from rest. Computed from the simulation when this page was built.
    Wheel
    6.8 rpm
    Stones
    122 rpm
    Efficiency
    68 %

    After MILLRACE by @thebuggeddevPlate 02Oct 2026Download as one file

Method

i. Every model starts from published sources: rule books, launch photographs, engineering drawings, patents. Nothing is invented where a real number exists.

ii. The physics runs live. The mill tracks the water in each of its 36 buckets. The Ferrari laps real racing lines under the 2026 energy rules.

iii. Then it is checked against the world. The SF-26 was fitted on four circuits and tested on seven it never saw, and the misses are published in the model, not hidden.