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The Geneva Mechanism is one of my favourites:
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chiral3
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Not as pretty but always interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZF5k4L_YAo
I went through a phase years ago (ok, almost 20) when I got a little obsessed with building mechanical oscillators with chaotic orbits. |
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй! |
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Sprinkler Gear mechanism:
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"Plausible regularities may be present but swamped by changes in attendant circumstances."
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Wintergatan
the "how it works" videos explain the maddening genius behind it. |
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re: walking bikes; have a look at Karel Zeman's movies; I think he had one of these in "the stolen airship."
Also, Jos de Vink makes very cool artistic heat engines:
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The Wintergatan Marble Machine is very impressive! Coolest finding of 2016!
Speaking of marbles, Matthias Wandel built a rudimentary digital computer out of wood. The ingenious Binary Marble Adding Machine is, basically, a 6-bit adder that runs on gravity and uses mechanical flip-flops for memory storage.
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| Rod, you and a CNC machine would be a dangerous combination. |
Русский военный корабль, иди на хуй! |
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You shouldn't mention walking wooden structures without mentioning Theo Jansen.
https://www.youtube.com/user/strandbeestfilm/videos |
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That astro-skeleton clock looks... complicated!
Also a huge fan of clickspring. My inspiration to buy a lathe which I'll never use. |
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>My inspiration to buy a lathe which I'll never use.
You should buy one. Worst thing which will happen, you'll never use it, just like some sportscoat you bought and never wore. I futz with mine even though it's tiny and makes a godawful mess, and feel like I've decreased the entropy after turning chunks of iron into chips, even when I make junk parts. |
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