when things go so bad, you can get away with going awol.

https://youtu.be/w_mBidBiXns?si=oJNUEh1NPH1_7DPp

So I am #tinkering with #gears. I am not a machinist...but I have some tools sufficiently suited once rigged properly, enough to maybe get some wood gears for a yarn spinner project thingy.
progress:
0/x

You know what the squads problem is, they’re not Delta.

https://youtu.be/53w595zyChU?si=rtU6Zat2v4fTYQS3

Gears of War: Reloaded is a modern-gen update to Gears of War: Ultimate, which itself is an updated version of the first Gears of War. It launches this Summer on Xbox, PS5, Windows & Steam. It also has cross-play across all platforms!

https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2025/05/05/gears-of-war-reloaded-release-date/

Looking for 3d printable gears? Started watching tutorial on making double helical in fusion and decided something like this would be way easier.

https://www.stlgears.com/generators/3dprint

Why it makes perfect sense for this bike to have two gears and two chains

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/02/why-it-makes-perfect-sense-for-this-bike-to-have-two-gears-and-two-chains/

Why Nothing Works Anymore

#Technology has its own purposes.

Ian Bogost, February 23, 2017

"The contemporary public restroom offers an example. Infrared-sensor flush toilets, fixtures, and towel-dispensers are sometimes endorsed on ecological grounds—they are said to save resources by regulating them. But thanks to their overzealous sensors, these toilets increase water or paper consumption substantially. Toilets flush three times instead of one. Faucets open at full-blast. Towel dispensers mete out papers so miserly that people take more than they need. Instead of saving resources, these apparatuses mostly save labor and management costs. When a toilet flushes incessantly, or when a faucet shuts off on its own, or when a towel dispenser discharges only six inches of paper when a hand waves under it, it reduces the need for human workers to oversee, clean, and supply the restroom.

"Given its connection to the hollowing-out of labor in the name of efficiency, automation is most often lamented for its inhumanity, a common grievance of bureaucracy. Take the interactive voice response (#IVR) telephone system. When calling a bank or a retailer or a utility for service, the IVR robot offers recordings and automated service options to reduce the need for customer service agents—or to discourage customers from seeking them in the first place.

"Once decoupled from their economic motivations, devices like automatic-flush toilets acclimate their users to apparatuses that don’t serve users well in order that they might serve other actors, among them corporations and the sphere of technology itself. In so doing, they make that uncertainty feel normal.

"It’s a fact most easily noticed when using old-world gadgets. To flush a toilet or open a faucet by hand offers almost wanton pleasure given how rare it has become. A local eatery near me whose interior design invokes the 1930s features a bathroom with a white steel crank-roll paper towel dispenser. When spun on its ungeared mechanism, an analogous, glorious measure of towel appears directly and immediately, as if sent from heaven."

Read more:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/why-nothing-works-anymore?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#OldSchoolTechnology #Gears #Steampunk #Luddite #BuiltToLast #AI #SmartAppliances #Waste #PlannedObselence #NotSoSmartTechnology

Behold a Geared, Continuously Variable Transmission - When it comes to transmissions, a geared continuously-variable transmission (CVT) ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/12/14/behold-a-geared-continuously-variable-transmission/ #transportationhacks #transmission #enginehacks #gearratio #gearbox #gears #motor #cvt

Today I tried putting my boots on,
But too painful to walk.
Tried the old knackered boots,
They fitted and then started disolving.
We packed a few tools,
And took the oak chair back to Levenshulme Repair Cafe.
The tools were to donate,
They have a library of things there.
I returned the chair to the client,
She was so very happy.
Annoyingly I brought back another chair,
One I tried repairing before.
I warned them it would break again,
And it has.
Did a lot less this afternoon,
Only measured the trailer axle.
Had dinner with Mum,
Sausage and Mash tonight.
Caught up on some videos,
Now tired out.
#NightAll

Taking a Spirograph Mill for a Spin - Spirographs can make some pretty groovy designs on paper, but what if you want to ... - https://hackaday.com/2024/08/31/taking-a-spirograph-mill-for-a-spin/ #classichacks #spirograph #toyhacks #gears #mill

Studying the Finer Points of 3D Printed Gears - [How to Mechatronics] on YouTube endeavored to create a comprehensive guide compar... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/12/studying-the-finer-points-of-3d-printed-gears/ #strengthofmaterials #3dprinting #filament #testing #parts #gears

What happened after the Lightmass Bombing in #GearsOfWar and how did the Locust react to this devastating weapon

This 2009 graphic novel bridges the gap between the first and second installment in the franchise.

https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/gears-of-war-book-one

#Gears #Gears6 #TheCoalition #Xbox #Xbox360 #XboxOne #XboxSeriesX #XboxSeriesS #GearsOfWar6 #EpicGame #Game #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Books #GoW #Comic #Comics #GraphicNovel #WildStorm

Why didn’t clock and bicycles develop in parallel?

The gear function and materials for tires existed.

Another recursive mechanism - this time the distances between boxes alternate getting longer and shorter, so the boxes move diagonally! Full video: https://youtu.be/ckrrQTkTqIo
#3dprinting #mechanism #gears

A "recursive" mechanism, where the position of each part is determined by the positions of the previous two parts in the chain. Full video at
https://youtu.be/ckrrQTkTqIo
#3dprinting #mechanism #gears

Clipper Windpower: Solutions in Search of Problems - The first modern wind turbines designed for bulk electricity generation came onlin... - https://hackaday.com/2023/08/02/clipper-windpower-solutions-in-search-of-problems/ #featurecreep #engineering #originalart #greenhacks #complexity #windpower #featured #history #gears

Turning

Gears in the Eise Eisinga Planetarium, Sneek, the Netherlands. The oldest still functioning planetarium in the world, completed in 1781 in the Eisinga family living room. https://www.planetarium-friesland.nl/en/

I do hope his wife and kids were as into this as he was, since well, the house is a planetarium. A beautiful planetarium, but it is definately a style choice...