How-To: Make Organically-Shaped Gears
MAKE subscriber Dug North writes in to share this video tutorial on how to make gears with unusual contours.
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Applied Kinetic Arts: Benjamin Cowden interview
Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Applied Kinetic Arts (A.K.A.) is an artist collective made up of kinetic artists who each bring their own unique aesthetic and skill set to the crew. From their site, “Works incorporating motion, light, sound, and interactivity are represented by the group’s ever expanding member base.” A couple of […]
How To: Make Your Own Gears
Gears are easy to understand, make, and use, IF you know the vocabulary and can space the gears at the correct distance apart.
Gear exotica from the archives of Make: Online – Top 10 posts
Round-up of top 10 exotic gear pr0n posts from the archives of Make: Online.
Ball-chain gears on Thingiverse
Vik from the RepRap blog created these printable ball-chain gears, and uploaded STLs and SCADs to Thingiverse. I have finally managed to print tiny little ball-chain gears that work with 3.3mm and 3.5mm diameter ball-chain and still fit on the NEMA17’s 5mm output shaft. The trick is to print the gears in two pieces. As […]
Pen-shaking centrifuge
Matthias Wandel made this rather tongue-in-cheek invention to help him shake pens. Using my gear template generator program, I was able to establish that a three-tooth lantern against a mating cycloid shaped gear should just barely work smoothly. I wanted a high gear ratio for my pen centrifuge, so this was a good place to […]
Printable cross-link ellipse gears
Thiingiverse user natetrue created this printable version of user stickoutrock’s laser-cut cross-linked elliptical gear toy. Somebody post some video, please!
