Posted March 13, 20204 yr Today is PI DAY! A very important day for all mathematicians to celebrate. What better way to celebrate than combining it with Lego Technic?! Here I present a PI Day special Lego Technic MOC that produces a gearing ratio of PI to 6 decimal places. This is using two differentials to produce a gearing ratio of 355 to 113. Happy PI Day.
March 14, 20204 yr Brilliant.. loved your previous too. Love the logic and the smarts being used. I'm a little bit in awe..
March 16, 20204 yr Author On 3/15/2020 at 2:49 AM, TeamThrifty said: Brilliant.. loved your previous too. Love the logic and the smarts being used. I'm a little bit in awe.. Thanks Team Thrifty. Always nice to get good feedback. I am currently working on a 256 speed gearbox that includes pi (well 355/113 anyway)! LOL Do you have ideas I can work on?
March 16, 20204 yr Wow! I can't imagine even how did you calculate so accurate input. Really a brilliant machine!
March 16, 20204 yr This is brilliant! And almost certainly completely useless (this is also a compliment, coming from me! ). You asked TeamThrifty about other ideas. Have you seen Oskar van Deventer's billion-to-one gearing? There are some similar calculations involved (see the 2nd video). How about emulating that in Lego somehow?
March 17, 20204 yr Author 23 hours ago, aeh5040 said: This is brilliant! And almost certainly completely useless (this is also a compliment, coming from me! ). You asked TeamThrifty about other ideas. Have you seen Oskar van Deventer's billion-to-one gearing? There are some similar calculations involved (see the 2nd video). How about emulating that in Lego somehow? Hi There. Thanks for your idea! Yes making useless things is my speciality!! LOL My videos are more about sharing techniques for designing certain gearing ratios. You'd be surprised where that could come in handy. That billion to one gearing system is really interesting. Did the guy 3d print those? Yes thank you will add that idea to my list.
March 18, 20204 yr 17 hours ago, TechnicBrickPower said: Hi There. Thanks for your idea! Yes making useless things is my speciality!! LOL My videos are more about sharing techniques for designing certain gearing ratios. You'd be surprised where that could come in handy. That billion to one gearing system is really interesting. Did the guy 3d print those? Yes thank you will add that idea to my list. Yes, Oskar gets these things 3D printed by Shapeways. His channel is well worth checking out for ideas. He is perhaps the world's leading puzzle designer, but he has lots of interesting gearing ideas too.
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