Strange gears

[Lykle]

Hi all,

Found this on the web and couldn't resist posting it here.

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/09/02/howto-organic-errati.html

So simple, yet it could generate such strange gears.

 

[JackG]

Wow, that's slick. I followed a link on that page and stumbled across some more

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYcqJ5HdxA4[/ame]

 

[wheeltapper]

Did you watch the series with the square gears?
someone in Model Engineer made a clock with square gears and I couldn't visualize how it worked, I can now.

Roy

 

[kcmillin]

That is some cool stuff.

I would like to see what is going on in the background, sounds pretty mechanical to me, almost steam engine like.

Kel

 

[RonGinger]

Art Fenerty, the fellow that wrote the Mach CNC software has been working on a gear simulation program to do all these crazy gears. It also handles ratchets and other links.

He has a couple videos on Youtube, and says the software will be available "soon" and will cost $75.

Besides generating great graphics the program will output Gcode so you can cut the gears on a CNC mill.

See http://www.machsupport.com/forum/index.php/board,86.0.html

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[itowbig]

wow that was cool man

 

[JackG]

Re the background noise in the video... That a clock. The guy (Clayton Boyer) makes clocks with wooden gears. Here's his web page

http://www.lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm