http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=WYcqJ5HdxA4#!
I could watch these all day long – and I would dearly hope to see them powering machinery in New Babbage sometime soon!
Thanks to Frau Annechen Lowey for pointing me at the video.
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Some of those are just freaky looking.
Cute demonstration.
Beautiful!
(adds a line to my project list….)
puts ‘scrollsaw’ on christmas list
Wow. Imaginative, ingenious, and hypnotic all at once…
Well, ladies and gentlemen, here is a demonstration that undoubtedly opens our minds.
Nothing law requires the gears to be only circular. The important is the teeth move without friction. While in a normal gear you want to maximize the transmission of energy with a constant ratio, in a non-circular gear the goal is to have a variable transmission ratio during the rotation.
Perhaps we might see this as evidence that seemingly irreconcilable elements (such the individuals in a community) can still interact, creating in any case an efficient system?
By the way, have you noticed that in all the samples, the gears’ pivots are always the same distance between them?
Interesting take on human nature, Livius!
As far as making your own odd gears, he does show how he figures em out, here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LdlSAN1yks&feature=related
Gears of the heart. Another demonstration of unusual gears.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70dKZjP4NOo