infinitepcg@lemmy.world to 3DPrinting@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 months agoI'm working on a mechanical seven segment displaylemmy.worldimagemessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up130arrow-down10
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minus-squareLandless2029@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoYep. I thought of this video as well! This is a much better engineering solution. Only requires 4 motors.
minus-squareinfinitepcg@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-27 months agoI’m testing a geneva drive (you can see it in the front in the photo), that should allow me to reduce the number of motors even further. I think I can get it down to two, maybe even one.
minus-squareLastYearsPumpkin@feddit.chlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·7 months agoWow, never occurred to me before, but this is such an elegant, and simple solution.
Yep. I thought of this video as well!
This is a much better engineering solution. Only requires 4 motors.
I’m testing a geneva drive (you can see it in the front in the photo), that should allow me to reduce the number of motors even further. I think I can get it down to two, maybe even one.
Wow, never occurred to me before, but this is such an elegant, and simple solution.