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Interesting Mechanisms

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Phil-X-
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Dope ass gears n shit. Pretty crazy what you can do with a few simple parts

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JAHpow
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It is pretty incredible what can be done with these simple objects. Those gifs remind me of a really fun puzzle game on the iTunes app store where you have to fit gears together to make them all run with only a limited amount of gears. I forgot what it's called though, maybe just simply "gears".
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timmi
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I saw this before, and it would be fun to make as like a home experiment, but I couldn't help but think why someone put so much effort into this? They don't do anything.
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Ski_the_east01
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These very simplistic models might not do anything, but you can see they are also the structural basis for pretty much all types of assembly lines
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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Yep, and presses and engines and all sorts of shit with many moving parts.

I work in print finishing and our die cutting presses look like a million of these things when you crack em open. All types of gears and cams and shit in there. It's actually pretty fascinating.
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JAHpow
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Yep that's it, pretty fun game. It can get frustrating though.
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Squirtle
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I love this stuff. It's cool how you can take something so simple, such as a single spinning gear and some metal, to perform all these cool actions. I'm for sure going to have to be inventing stuff as a mechanical or electrical engineer some day. Electronics are a fun thing to mess around with too. Its cool how you can just take a bunch of wire and a power source, and transform it into all sorts of cool things.
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chicken
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yup. I am by no means an engineer, I suck at designing things, but I had to take a course on circuits & electronics and I really enjoyed it. Ended up building all kinds of cool things. I got 96% on the final exam, without studying, because I spent so much time playing with breadboards and simulation software. Well, it also was a course that engineers took so they made the exam easy.
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FerrisBueller
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The sickest thing ever created, and the first geared device ever (found to today)
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.undetected
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Huehuehuehuehueheuhe
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FerrisBueller
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^An astronomical calculator of all the positions of the planets in the sky, the zodiac constellations,around 3 or 4 different calendars could be recorded, and it predicted eclipses, all made out of bronze and wood by the greeks a long time ago

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