If elected I will forever change the name of Penicillin to Penichillin.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
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Wednesday, September 22, 2010
I kind of want to build a 'sculpture' that has a tiny motor pick up a huge weight. It would be neat to show how power = torque * angular velocity. So if you just had the little motor you could stop it with your hand (low torque), but if you put enough gear reducers on it the final gear would move much slower, but it would have much higher torque and couldn't be stopped by your hand, but could pick up a heavy weight. I would need a dc power supply (have in the attic) a motor (I'm sure I could find), but the tricky part would be the gear reducers, I don't know where I'd get them from. It could be really cool, and lift like a 50lb weight over the course of a week (I'd could do the exact calculation).