Thread: 1806 Teaser
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Re: 1806 Teaser

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Originally Posted by keehun View Post
Hm. Wow. I never even imagined a piece of metal like that. Wow.. Sorry but it's one of those "blow your mind away" moments.
Its generally called a geneva mechanism (or at least that's what our engineering teacher taught us). A really fun activity with mechanisms like this is making automatas. We do this in our engineering class and it actually helps a ton when it comes time to design the FRC robot.

http://automata.co.uk/mechanisums.htm
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