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    • CommentAuthorWhystler
    • CommentTimeMay 11th 2009 edited
     
    Gears are all over the place ... even gears for the wall, I'll admit it :) I wondered if I could take it one step further. These ones move! You can arrange them however you like.





    They're up for sale in my showroom in bamboo and dark grey tint acrylic.

    Here's a video:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umeuN-YfeVc

    Thanks for watching!

    -Whystler
    Thankful People: Josh
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    Cool Whystler, did you do them by eye (this is how I do my gears) or did you do them with a program? If you used a program, which one?

    Jon
    http://WoodMarvels.com - Create Unique Memories
    • CommentAuthorWhystler
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    Hey Jon,

    Check out this program. It's great for designing gears and also for testing them in various configurations. You can create gears, hinges and all kinds of things, and then attach a motor to see how it runs:

    http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home

    -Whystler
    Thankful People: rraadd.com, woodmarvels, someguy, Josh
    • CommentAuthorJosh
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    I work here
    Another awesome project, Whystler. Thanks for taking the youtube video as well - it's so cool to be able to see them in action!
    • CommentAuthorwoodmarvels
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009 edited
     
    Hi Whystler, did you cut your gears dead-on or did you have to make some slight modifications from what the program gave to you vs what you put into your EPS file? I have lots of ideas using gears but having to do testing in my head has, so far, limited their involvement in my projects.

    Also, you used different materials for your gears, did you notice anything different in how they interacted in the real world vs what you build in Phun?

    Thanks,
    Jon
    • CommentAuthorWhystler
    • CommentTimeMay 12th 2009
     
    There were a few issues to fix, but for the most part you can take a clear screenshot of the phun gear in black and convert it to a vector drawing.

    I did notice a difference between the wood and the acrylic. The acrylic runs much more smoothly simply because it does not warp. The bamboo plywood was slightly warped, so the larger gear will occasionally skip.

    I wonder if MDF would have been better. Does it warp at 3mm?

    I didn't publish this as a product, but I also cut the gears in cardboard. This was unsuccessful, as it was hard for the cut corrugations to always catch the teeth of the other gears.

    -Whystler
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    Hi Whystler, was there a difference of the catching of gears with the smaller "teeth" vs the larger ones? My stuff would have teeth about the size of what you have on your smallest wheel...

    Jon
    • CommentAuthorWhystler
    • CommentTimeMay 14th 2009
     
    When you design your wheels, there are certain parameters that you choose, one of which is the number of teeth in your gears. If leave the parameters from gear to gear exactly the same, except for the number of teeth, then you will have gears of different sizes but which are all compatable with each other in terms of moving together smoothly.

    -Whystler

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