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).
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Creepy crawler
via miters This looks like fun. Nice project. University of Louisiana News has a decent interview with Dr. Terrence Chambers, and student Don Tamosaitis. The design draws on the work of Theo Jansen. The crawler travels about 2-3 miles/hour. There were five of us working on it, there was a lot of 3D modeling of […]
The Series visits the HypoSurface
Find more videos like this on Hollywood East TV Hollywood East is a new movie studio being planned and built in Plymouth MA. As part of their buildup for creating the studio complex, they have a daily webisode called The Series, which details many of the aspects of the project.
Collapsible hoops
My friend Michelle has been hooping, and sent me this link to instructions for making your own hoops, including a collapsible version with bungee cord inside.
LED hula in action
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Brookelynn captured this shot of the multicolor light show created by her LED hula in motion! This hoop was born from her own design – featured in CRAFT:06 – Testing the new toy! on Flickr From the pages of CRAFT: LED Hula Hoop by Brookelyn Morris – CRAFT:06 p.54 […]
Arduino sleep tracker project
As part of her research at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie did some investigations of her own sleep habits recording motion sensor data via Arduino – I outfitted myself with sensors that would help me determine how my position changes over the course of a night’s sleep. I used three accelerometers as tilt sensors, […]
Environmentally aware dogbot
Sparky the art-robot responds to air quality, movement, and touch by collapsing his body in relative amounts – indicating quality of environment. Sparking responds negatively to: carbon monoxide, cigarette smoke, alcohol, too much dark lighting, hitting and yelling. Any of the above factors (depending on severity) makes Sparky drop it’s head and tail, whimper, and […]
