What Will Makes

Category: Creations

  • My Toolbox [general tools] (and thoughts about tool storage)

    My Toolbox [general tools] (and thoughts about tool storage)

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    Here is an older video I made about my toolbox for general tools. I was playing around with editing, and made the video to just sort of practice video-making… but I do think the design is nifty! The mechanism is not as smooth as I hoped it would be, but it works well-enough. The trays…

  • My Mechanical Calculator: How and Why

    My Mechanical Calculator: How and Why

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    This is my homemade mechanical calculator. For the why and how it works, I made this video about it: To give a little more about how I made it, I dug up old drawings I made of the parts. What follows is an explanation of making the calculator using those as a guide. After studying…

  • Old Projects: Solenoid Motor, Stirling Engine, Drill Bike

    Old Projects: Solenoid Motor, Stirling Engine, Drill Bike

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    Here’s a collection of some of my old projects. I think I made the solenoid motor in middle school, maybe 8th grade. I wanted to make a solenoid motor rather than the conventional style of electric motor with a rotating armature of windings because it was easier to see how the windings powered the motor.…

  • More Details: Mechanical Calculator

    More Details: Mechanical Calculator

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    This is an older post from before I finished the calculator. First watch this video: When the ever-opitimistic Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz hired the Parisian clockmaker Ollivier to materialize Leibniz’s design for a mechanical calculator in 1672, the philosopher payed the artisan a fixed sum for three weeks of work. Instead, the two took forty years…

  • My Automaton

    My Automaton

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