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Reminds me of a fun trick that was popular when I was in undergraduate mechanical engineering: A gear train that has one end spinning, powered by a small DC mo
by na85 11y ago
Reminds me of a fun trick that was popular when I was in undergraduate mechanical engineering: A gear train that has one end spinning, powered by a small DC motor, and one end bolted/welded/glued/otherwise fixed solidly to a wall.
Increase the ratio enough and you can have an output shaft that will take years to go through even a fraction of a revolution ;)
- dominicgs 11y agoThere is one by Arthur Ganson in the MIT museum[1]. It's part of a great exhibit of fun/quirky machines and there's an interesting video about it on youtube[2]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5q-BH-tvxEg [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rov_Lriqvk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rov_Lriqvk