Alan Parekh of Hacked Gadgets has created an industrial-looking clock from wooden gears, a PIC microcontroller, and a scavenged stepper motor. This unique project blends traditional woodworking with ...

While most animated machines we deal with every day – everything from clocks to cars to computers – are made of metal, there is an art to creating automated objects out of wood. [Dug North] is a ...

If you're an engineer, an inventor, or just a steampunk fan you might find yourself in need of a gear for a project. Most gears are cast from steel or other metals, but you can make a simple ...

The combination of time-lapse photography and slow camera panning can be quite hypnotic – think of those cool sunset to nightfall shots where the camera slowly pans across a cityscape with car lights ...

The wooden laser-cut dinosaur skeleton is a staple of most museum and science center gift shops. But a company called UGEARS has turned those wooden puzzles into engineering marvels with more gears ...

As tech and design have advanced, we’ve developed more and more products made from plastics and other artificial composites. From a business standpoint they make sense — they’re easy to manufacture, ...

Name: Randy Artruc Patent No.: 10,023,282 Patent: Gears for Reversing Rowing Motion for Oars: Artruc’s invention uses a hemispherical pair of gears to make an oar’s movements match a rower’s hand ...