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A 3D-Printed Calculator Does Addition and Multiplication with Gears Instead of Electronics

A fully FDM-printed mechanical calculator performs addition and multiplication by setting digits and turning a hand crank. It uses no electronics; rotations through printed gears perform the calculation, including a mechanical carry mechanism.

3D All Workshop spent about two months developing the design. Because FDM-printed gears are sensitive to tolerances, the mechanism went through roughly one hundred design iterations before it worked reliably.

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A cheap calculator can produce the answer instantly, but this one required roughly a hundred mechanical redesigns just to make the gears cooperate. Building the calculator is vastly more work than doing the calculation.

Details: Hackaday ↗

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A Clock Tells Time by Tumbling Two 12-Sided Solids Into Position

OVODYO displays time by rotating two numbered 12-sided solids until the appropriate faces point upward. One indicates the hour and the other advances in five-minute intervals, with internal gearing rotating each shell around two axes.

Creator ekaggrat singh kalsi built the clock. Because the minute solid only changes every five minutes, LEDs indicate the exact minute between those steps.

ファニトロちゃん:楽しい笑い

Changing a clock digit now requires two polyhedra to physically tumble into new poses. Checking the time has become a tiny mechanical performance.

Details: ekaggrat singh kalsi / Hackaday.io ↗ · Open video or post ↗

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