3D-Printed Triple Gear
Henry Segerman designed this triple gear construct and printed it at Shapeways.
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Planetary Gear Light Switch Plate
It’s one of five such delightfully overcomplexified mechanical switchification contrivances by Lance and L. J. Nybye of Green Tree Jewelry.
Cutting Wooden Gears with Ideal Grain
Ron, who is a craftsman of wooden machines, has figured out that, to best withstand environmental changes, the grain in a wooden clock wheel should run in a circle around the circumference, and in radial “spokes” in the middle. Real trees don’t grow that way, of course, so if you’re really serious about cutting wooden gears that will weather the seasons well, you need to cut them from blanks made up from a bunch of smaller pieces of wood arranged and glued so that the grain pattern, on the whole, is correct.
Shave Stand from Welded Gears
Redditor Tye recently posted a set of photos of a hand-crafted shave stand that his friend welded together out of a set of gears.
Mike Davey’s Wooden Wall Clock
Mike Davey is a maker we’re already familiar with through projects such as his incredibly detailed Turing Machine. This time he’s made a wooden wall clock, based on a design by Clayton Boyer, that almost looks like a long-legged creature with a little finger periodically pulling on the escapement.
Giant Pink Printable Gear Heart
It’s Thing #16909 from faberdasher, directly enlarged from Thing #12208 by emmett (who is also a central node in the Thingiverse cube gears phenomenon). All of these complex bevel-geared kinetic sculptures can be traced back to the mechanical papercraft of Haruki Nakamura, which was, I believe, first adapted for fused-filament printing in Thing #4683 by […]
Atlanta Maker Alliene Bouchard
A few weeks have passed since the Atlanta Mini Maker Faire 2011 and I’ve been enjoying some follow-up visits with some of the many makers I met at the event. Time was short during the one-day fair, so I didn’t get to visit much with Alliene Bouchard, an Atlanta-based maker. Alliene (pronounced Ollie-yen) impressed me […]
