Year: 2016

A Mechanical Engineer’s Quick Tips for Using Gears

Here are some quick tips on making gears for your next project (plus links to some more exhaustive gear resources if you’ve got the time).

This dancing and singing Elmo gets a new look and sound with some clever electronics hacking.

What is a reciprocating rack and pinion? It’s a geared mechanism that turns rotary movement into linear movement.

The Car Hacker’s Handbook by Craig Smith is a great resource for hacking the software and embedded computer systems in cars.

Crappy robot maker, techno-humorist, and all-around awesome human Simone Giertz builds a popcorn helmet with Adam Savage.

Wanna play with some robots? Come closer… let me tell you about Let’s Robots. It’s cool. You’ll be into it.

Perpetual motion is a government secret kept from the masses to protect Big Energy, but these 7 machines come close to solving the mystery.

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