Mechanical Rotary Counter

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4 жыл бұрын

I've always been fascinated with mechanical counters; such intricate mechanisms in a small package. How do they work?! Here I make a rotary dial counter with soup cans and plywood!
The magic lies in a special gear that has 8 teeth on one half and 4 teeth on the other half along with a matching gear with just one notch; this allows the rotors to iterate rather than spin freely. Matthias Wandel has an excellent write up of the mechanism for those interested:
woodgears.ca/counter/
He went down the route of having and increment/decrement lever, but I've always wanted to know how dial/turns counters work so I had to take one apart to see what the mechanism actually consisted of.
This is rough, obviously it was a lot of trial and error just to see how things worked, and a second version made of solid wood with larger parts would function smoother. Think of this really as just a proof of concept. It makes me have even more respect for how these things are manufactured at such a small scale and function flawlessly.
Matthias also has a gear template generator that I used for all of my gears, found here:
woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/tem...
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@rokibeeskiroodroki9018 4 жыл бұрын

The clacking of the wooden gears is so satisfying, I love exploring how mechanical things like this work as well, but, being a college student kinda means I don’t have access to any equipment, thanks for letting people like me vicariously experience this sort of stuff!

@PuzzledRandO 4 жыл бұрын

7:51 Please clink them together, please clink them together, please- *clinkclink* Aw yes

@Bibibosh 4 жыл бұрын

RandO one time I clinked something so hard, the clacka when clickity clack. I should just clicked it not clacked or cluck.

@krek420 4 жыл бұрын

He had his priorities set

@rootvalue 4 жыл бұрын

I love the captions... and the faint clock ticking in the background. 🥰 Masterfully done. Neat to see Matthias’ concepts in new executions.

@29lookingood 4 жыл бұрын

When it finally spun round to 000 I was grinning like a idiot 😌😊🤭🤭. Loved your video, Sir. 💙👍🥇

@Bibibosh 4 жыл бұрын

At 6:44 there is something that caught my eye. Rainbow coloured wood drills. You could do a video about that amazing coloured drill . It’s stunning! I had no idea they came in that!

@Karaon 4 жыл бұрын

camera fault

@windsunh2o 4 жыл бұрын

@@Karaon I don't think so. Looks like they were discolored (intentionally or unintentionally) from heat.

@InstrucTube 4 жыл бұрын

The rotating base is cool and all, but to add some functionality to it you should redo the base with another gear, that would lead to a vertical shaft with another gear, then leading to a handle on the side that you can crank to move the numbers. Little more cumbersome, but will look neat. Plus who doesn't like more gears? :)

@ellieboa 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome project!

@kenney8656 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing project! 👍🏻👏🏻👌🏻

@ismael-du9zw 4 жыл бұрын

What a wonderful project

@electronic7979 4 жыл бұрын

Excellent

@Neris-of-the-other Жыл бұрын

This is what peak villagecore looks like

@garethronaldo8692 4 жыл бұрын

I love it so much

@pearkore6821 4 жыл бұрын

Nice

@a596321z 4 жыл бұрын

面白いですが、何に使うものですか？

@DJ-fn3jm 4 жыл бұрын

Looks like you have a harbor freight near by. ;)

@andre_601 4 жыл бұрын

7:12 I would recommend you to use a clamp at this point for a better grip on the piece.

@tolkaewetc Жыл бұрын

Исполнение проекта на отлично. Но какое практическое применение этого?

@Qeswara 4 ай бұрын

It's a counter! You can count anything with it using the appropriate mechanism.

@tolkaewetc 4 ай бұрын

@@Qeswara а в чем проблемма считать без него?

@lesliesanchez7662 4 жыл бұрын

👍

@panda69144ify 4 жыл бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍👏

@harmoniumteacher 4 жыл бұрын

I love your work. It is Precision craftsmanship at its best! I have a paid project for you. How can I contact you?

@lesliesanchez7662 4 жыл бұрын

😮😮😮

@melody3741 2 жыл бұрын

Did you just invent a frictionless Geneva mechanism

@gaming_hd 4 жыл бұрын

11:57

@AdityaMehendale 4 жыл бұрын

4:16 DoH! if you were planning to drill them all along, why bother with all the elaborate band-saw work and sanding?

@driftliketokyo34ftw35 4 жыл бұрын

He probably wasn’t planning to drill them and realized that it would be better to drill them if he had to make adjustments. He even said so in the captions.

@octap79 4 жыл бұрын

Have been waiting to see a specific application for the those odd design decisions. Didn't see any 😟

@user-zh5nk5zt1c 4 жыл бұрын

Счётное ведро... Его крутишь, оно считает...

@ramonta3 4 жыл бұрын

Un trabajo laborioso y trabajoso. Pero realmente, ¿ para que sirve? No veo objeción ninguna para esto, si sigues con estas cosas me dará de baja de suscrito,saludos.