Showing posts with label functional art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label functional art. Show all posts

Thursday, May 11, 2017

lego creations - now thats a lego fan

 Yea, i built a LEGO fan. What? What pun? I have no idea what you are talking about! 😛


It features a crank, but can also be equipped with a motor.  It has three adjustable blades, some gears, a stabilizer beam and more,
The hardest part about anything that spins around fast is obvious. Balance.  Each of those blades is carefully designed to match the weight of the others.

knex creations - Binary half adder

 Ah, what an interesting knex machine, (and what a pain to edit out the margin of the photo area)

Going by the title, you have probably guessed its some kind of half adder of base 2, well yes, but technically there are two in this thing.



besides being by far my most tedious knex creation (in both size, complexity, and sensitivity)
it does work, and with not even a rubber band. 

you might notice that its not exactly stable per say. 😛



 
 Ah here we have a nice logic diagram. the half adder works the same way.

this is definitely a case of functional knex art. 


"how is it art?" well its art because i say it is, and its not exactly that reliable, and can only add up to 2, so its more of a conversation piece than anything else, 😆)