i'll give you a recent anecdote i was working on a project where i needed to convert linear motion into rotational motion i was working through some schemes a

i'll give you a recent anecdote i was working on a project where i needed to convert linear motion into rotational motion i was working through some schemes and though functional by design they were failing in the real world scenarios i was building for frustrated i sat down for a break and doped up on some hn for a bit this post came up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714048 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10714048 i clicked through and was surprised by how much i enjoyed the lists found within, so i clicked on the portrait in the corner to learn more about the person putting the lists together this led me to this page: http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/ http://www.staff.science.uu.nl/~hooft101/ an almost goofy early web days personal page of this nobel prize winning physicist while scrolling though the personal page, clicking on random things and skimming through them, i came across an animation in the 'unpublished works' section i looked at it for a second and thought.. is that a rotational motion being converted into a linear motion? i searched for 'Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage' and found this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30iFxhJTQA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D30iFxhJTQA and there it was, linear to rotational motion and much more robust than the other efforts i was attempting i built it and it worked i've since designed out the need for the conversion but it was an important step along the way in the build i'd err away from the charge to 'get to work' and suggest one instead: 'enjoy yourself'