How To Make Organically-Shaped Gears

[robertlewisvazquez]

is there a ratio of teeth between each gear?

[kokurikof]

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Is this ”Every Jack has his Jill."  ???

[mikesmullin]

this could be done with cad or photoshop also by inverting the selection. interesting approach

[MrBlack69Ops]

Orgasmic??

[61066clocks]

Very Creative &Educational Clayton!! I cannot believe some of the inconsiderate filthy comments some of these viewers has put on the comment section of this video,thanks for sharing,Tim

[praky23k]

wow! human creativity knows no bounds!. Btw I don't see any correlation with the gear ratio having to be an integer. . . as long as the number is rational i.e. we can have a definite number of teeth on each gear, it should work. But hats off to you sir for redefining the way in which this human being shall look at gears :)

[clbphllps]

@praky23k Seems to me that if the gear ratio wasn't an even integer, then there would be a phase shift on a gear relative to the other. Since these are asymmetrical gears, they only align one way so there cannot be a phase shift.

[Offshoreorganbuilder]

Amazing, and entertaining. (Not sure why anyone would want to do this, mind you, except that it's possible. Thanks.

[mrtimemaker]

I think it would have to necessarily true that the ratios are an integer number. Wonderful scheme! Have you thought of a clock made useing organic gears. You have opened up an entirely fascinating area of development for me. Thank you very much

[starm33]

That is very ingenious, I appreciate the artistic approach. This reminds me of a project back in Freshman year, my teacher was Toshio Odate. It is pretty admirable for you to share. Thank you.

[ScEngMan]

I guess this works only for gears that have a radius ratio that is integer, like 1:1 2:1 3:1, etc...

In the video the large gear has 32 teeth and the small one 16. 2:1.

[albinois]

did i just hear a rooster?

[BirdValiant]

NOBODY has disliked this. Amazing.

[BirdValiant]

@BirdValiant Never mind... 3 jerks came into the room.

[thing2liv]

Really cool. Odd shaped gears look awesome when exposed since people take one look and go "what is going on here?", And then it starts moving and their like "Seriously... how the **** dose that work!"

[iwonttell19888]

Organic? So trendy. ;) 

[AhmedHemaly]

Really amazing

[PushyMonk]

Brilliant! 

[dalphin1964]

sweet...I need to apply that to one of my clocks

[tcrusader]

whats the point??

[OnkelMickwald]

@tcrusader Killing boredom.

[antijelly]

@tcrusader to pass time in a better way than asking people whats the point of their youtube videos.

[sittingcow]

@antijelly but... i'm curious... what's the point? (it's cool without a point, but would be cooler with one)

[antijelly]

@sittingcow saying "i bet you 20 bucks these gears will work!"

the other person wont believe they will work because of the shape.

so .. winning bets is a pretty good point XD

[Gantronics]

That looks great...^_^...

But does it have any advantage than normal gear? (varying torque or angular velocity or something like that)...

[paborralho]

good Work, simple and effective.

I'm trying to make a program in Autocad to do the same.

I realised that the radios must be proportional. In this example one turn on the left makes 2 on the right.

[truehaebaru]

hmm...

?????

[muyuu]

Need formal explanation of "tracing the arc of each tooth"

The paper is rotating pretty randomly. The pen sometimes follows the edge of the tooth as it rotates, then at some point it starts going into the side of the tooth. Doesn't explain exactly when or why.

[zoadam]

@muyuu As far as I understand, he cuts away any area that was under a tooth at any time.

[punknart]

Wow!, that was very clever!

[dabigkahuna777]

when he rolled the tape he's like "shit, that sucked"

*quickly attaches; flips paper over to hide*

-cool video however

[Ghotio]

This is such an intuitive way to solve the problem. Fantastic work!

[nutdip]

It's "organic." Does that mean it tastes like cardboard?

[lovesmasher]

@nutdip Organic food often tastes better than non-organic food because it's more fresh. This is especially true of all dairy, fruits, vegetables, breads, meats and some cereals.

[MPS186282]

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[tauranous]

Thanks for giving me inspiration for something cool to make for or make together with my lil boy =) Never been much of a handyman but this looks like fun!

[maomakmaa]

thank you so much :-) i think bout combining this with DIY synth circuits ;-)

[tmc515]

nice work Mr. Boyer

[serendiplou]

so nice!

[rachelisonfirexx]

neato

[thenuge88]

cool

[GamePreorders]

Awesome

[vyomtatva]

simple yet innovative thinking..

[zaloo]

beautiful.

what is the best way to cut wood precisely like that??

any tips?

[StopMoColorado]

@zaloo Scrollsaw. Paul Spooner (Google him or check him out on YT) uses a foot/treadle driven one, makes lots of parts for his Automata on one

[nebutron]

Beautiful.

[AdvocatusDiabolii]

do you speak?

[brainwagon]

It's pretty obvious that in most cases, the gear ratio has to be an integer (2:1 in this example). Very neat.

[rek636]

crazy

Very interesting.

[Grieverjoao]

NICEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

[titanium2009]

These are incredible.  How long until we see a clock made with these wacky gears?

[sooth15]

Oh My God, that's genius, and totally bizarre.

[blesshiscottonsocks]

amazing, faved!