Notes concerning “Mechanical things”

• Vanagon mail 2007 to 2009 (3 minutes)
• Nobody has yet constructed a mechanical universal digital computer 2014-04-24 (6 minutes)
• Planar lookup tables 2014-04-24 (2 minutes)
• An extremely simple electromechanical state machine 2014-04-24 (16 minutes)
• Making a mechanical state machine via sheet cutting 2014-04-24 (updated 2015-09-03) (7 minutes)
• Slotted tape with skewed involute roulette bristles as an alternative to hose clamps and possibly screws 2014-07-02 (6 minutes)
• A mechano-optical vector display for animation archival 2014-12-28 (updated 2015-09-03) (28 minutes)
• We should use end-to-end optimization algorithms for 3-D printing design 2015-09-03 (14 minutes)
• A one-motor robot 2015-09-03 (13 minutes)
• Tapered thread 2015-09-03 (updated 2019-06-10) (4 minutes)
• Hot wire saw 2015-12-28 (updated 2019-06-02) (10 minutes)
• Material merits 2016-05-08 (6 minutes)
• Spring energy density 2016-05-28 (updated 2016-06-06) (13 minutes)
• Mechanical buck converter 2016-06-20 (5 minutes)
• String cutting cardboard 2016-06-30 (5 minutes)
• Phosphorescent laser display 2016-08-16 (8 minutes)
• Hot oil cutter 2016-08-16 (updated 2016-08-17) (8 minutes)
• Pulley generator 2016-09-05 (2 minutes)
• Spring energy density 2016-09-05 (updated 2019-04-20) (3 minutes)
• Simple state machines 2016-09-19 (updated 2016-09-24) (8 minutes)
• Cross current zone melting 2016-10-06 (1 minute)
• Clay fabrication objectives 2017-01-16 (updated 2017-01-17) (3 minutes)
• Differential spiral cam 2017-07-19 (9 minutes)
• Piezoelectric engraving 2017-07-19 (4 minutes)
• Pipe dome 2017-07-19 (7 minutes)
• Approaches to 3-D printing in sandstone 2017-08-03 (5 minutes)
• Hammering toolhead 2017-08-18 (6 minutes)
• Three phase oscillating belt 2018-10-28 (4 minutes)
• Paper/foil relays 2019-04-02 (updated 2019-10-23) (13 minutes)
• Plastic cutters 2019-04-20 (5 minutes)
• Drone cutting 2019-06-11 (12 minutes)
• Computation with strain 2019-06-13 (17 minutes)
• Foil origami robots 2019-06-13 (updated 2019-06-14) (10 minutes)
• Spiral chinese windlass 2019-07-23 (updated 2019-07-24) (7 minutes)
• Sandwich theory 2019-08-05 (updated 2019-08-29) (31 minutes)
• Harmonic motion chain robot 2019-08-16 (2 minutes)
• Rubber wheel pinch drive 2019-08-16 (updated 2019-08-18) (8 minutes)
• Gold leaf trusses 2019-08-31 (11 minutes)
• Photodiode camera 2019-09-04 (16 minutes)
• Lenticular deflector 2019-09-08 (updated 2019-09-09) (9 minutes)
• Methods of pumping ice-vest coolant silently 2019-09-28 (12 minutes)
• Bistable magnetic electromechanical display 2019-10-24 (16 minutes)
• Shaped hammer face giant pressure 2019-11-10 (21 minutes)
• The Suburbean: a minimally-mobile dwelling machine with months of autonomy 2019-11-24 (updated 2019-12-03) (32 minutes)
• Oval cam lock 2019-11-26 (5 minutes)