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A Mame machine in an antique buffet - USB probs solved (I think!)
drventure:
Found a sweet little book a few days ago. Especially nice for any steampunk gearheads, but it's an interesting flipthrough for those mechanically inclined
It's called 507 Mechanical Movements by Henry Brown
There's a downloadable version here
http://builders.reprap.org/2008/09/507-mechanical-movements.html
though it's in a weird djvu format, so you'll have to get the viewer as well (it's a freeware alternative to Acrobat).
Anyway, pages and pages of pictures and descriptions of just about every kind of mechanical motion transfer device you can think of.
translation: lots of cogs and gears and pulleys and wheels!
Good stuff
Ryglore:
Oh wow! That should totally help in figuring out the Monitor rotating. And maybe automating the un-folding of the CP ;)
Benevolance:
Or building a giant steam-powered mechanical spider that is really good at Donkey Kong and seizes the high score title from those inferior moist fleshbags. Bwa ha! Ha ha ha! HAHA!!
drventure:
I think I just found my pulley system
It's called a "Butler's Blanking Bell Pulley" from back in the days when, if you wanted to summon your butler, you'd pull a string, which was routed about via pulleys to a Bell mounted in the butlers quarters.
Looks like they're nice and solid brass, and appear to be a little heftier than the grandfather clock pulleys I'd been looking at.
One more step toward a rotating monitor....
Ryglore:
Nice find! Now all you have to do is attach those to the John Deere gears...
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