Onigam Labs
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Fuel-free machines you can take apart, piece by piece.

Onigam Labs gathers interactive 3D labs: explore a turbine, a hydraulic ram or a wind turbine, take it apart, run it in a simulation. Free, in French and English, with a spoken guide.

Browse the labs Source code on GitHub

  1. Orbit the machine, isolate a part, cut it open.

  2. An exploded view separates every part. Each one has its sheet: overview, specifications, upkeep.

  3. A live simulation: change the head, the flow or the wind, and read what comes out.

The labs

Each lab is a site of its own: open it, play with it, come back here to pick the next one.

Online

3

Pelton Lab

A micro-hydro Pelton turbine, from the stream to the battery

  • Electricity
  • Water
  • Hydropower
  • Off-grid
Level
Advanced
Time
30 min
Languages
FREN
Spoken guide
FR ENsynthetic voice
Open the lab Pelton Lab Source code Pelton Lab

In progress

1

The repository is public, the lab is not open yet.

Mill Lab

Archimedes screw and water wheel: from falling water to electricity

  • Electricity
  • Water
  • Hydropower
  • Off-grid
Level
Intermediate
Time
25 min
Languages
FREN
Spoken guide
Not yet
Follow on GitHub Mill Lab

Coming

7

No dates: a lab ships when it is ready.

  • Solar water heater

    A collector, a tank and hot water that rises on its own

    Heat, Water

    Coming

  • Rocket mass heater

    Burn little, heat for hours: warmth kept in the mass

    Heat, Storage

    Coming

  • Bioclimatic house

    Trombe wall, earth tube, solar dryer and cooker in a house cutaway

    Heat

    Coming

  • Gravity battery

    Storing energy by lifting a weight

    Electricity, Storage

    Coming

  • Sand battery

    Storing heat in sand

    Heat, Storage

    Coming

  • Biodigester

    Cooking gas from organic waste

    Heat

    Coming

  • Wood gasifier

    A piece of wood’s journey, from log to gas

    Electricity, Heat

    Coming

Inside every lab

The labs share one frame, so you find your bearings from one lab to the next.

3D worlds
The site, the machine, its inner parts: several views, from the whole to the detail.
Parts
One sheet per part: overview, specifications, upkeep. Isolate it, centre on it.
Assembly
A step-by-step guide that builds the machine, then installs it on its site.
Simulation
A physics model that runs live, with scenarios and readings.
Drawings and lessons
A3 sheets drawn from the same dimensions as the 3D model, and short lessons with a quiz.
Spoken guide
A narrator introduces the lab and moves the camera as they speak. Synthetic voice, with subtitles.
Sources
Sources are credited, and what is estimated is never presented as measured.

About and credits

Onigam Labs is a personal project by Magino. Each lab rebuilds, for learning, a machine seen in a public video: it is an independent educational reconstruction, neither an official drawing nor a maker’s product.

No image or footage from those videos is reused. Sources are credited inside each lab, in the Sources tab, and below. Figures come from the simulation, except where a source is quoted.

The spoken guides are read by a synthetic voice, always labelled as such.

These labs are for understanding, not for building without care: electricity, water, fire and gas come with rules, sometimes a permit. This is not an engineering study.

Sources by lab

The videos and documents each lab is based on. Thanks to their authors.

Pelton Lab

Hydraulic Ram Lab

Piggott Lab

Open code

Every lab’s code is public under the MIT licence. They all share one foundation, lab-kit: same frame, same tools, same bearings.

lab-kit on GitHubMagino on GitHub