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Triple Gear
- freehunter 13y agoIs this the first working triple gear? I'm having troubles understanding the significance of or uses for this device.
- Palomides 13y agoI think the primary (only?) value is as a demo object for showing off 3D printing.
- nickpinkston 13y agoI was thinking mainly for showing how awesome math is!
- leeoniya 13y agowtf? this is sick!
- xijuan 13y agoThat looks like a piece of artwork!
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- lloeki 13y agoZ-axis "elimination" due to the projection on a 2d plane makes it look like a triquerta[0] (really a trefoil knot[1]) on those shots, except there are three loops, not one. [0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triquetra [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trefoil_knot
- frankus 13y agoSeems like it could have applications for something like a rope climbing device, since all of the internal edges converge (or diverge) as the parts are rotated.
- cormullion 13y agoMore cool gear here: http://bugman123.com/Gears/index.html http://bugman123.com/Gears/index.html
- robert_foss 13y agoThis is mechanical transistor. I'm looking forward to a Turing complete machine based on triple gears.
- delinquentme 13y agoreally cool thrust bearing!?