Bryan has been working on this forever! Truly a labor of love. Neat to see it pop up here. He also does illustrations of homes around San Francisco (amongst other things), which I highly recommend checking out: https://www.instagram.com/bmacomber_art/
"Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist."
Such a beautifully done site. I might be in love already . Many kudos.
I dropped in a suggestion to do one on an umbrella. There's a lot going on in these. One can study the differential geometry of surfaces. The mechanism design of opening and closing.
I find both the spring ones (push button) and the ones without spring quite fascinating. In fact the ones without a spring has implicit ones imposed by the bending of the spokes.
I've always enjoyed that the cam surface for that particular push-push mechanism design (click pen) is not that dissimilar from a Leibniz wheel. It's so tempting to add more steps.
Bryan has been working on this forever! Truly a labor of love. Neat to see it pop up here. He also does illustrations of homes around San Francisco (amongst other things), which I highly recommend checking out: https://www.instagram.com/bmacomber_art/
"Illustrated tear-downs and break-downs of everyday products, like mechanical pencils, lighters and pez dispensers, that you may have taken for granted. Drawn by Bryan Macomber, a mechanical engineer and artist."
The description above comes from the following post on mastodon: https://merveilles.town/@rek/116658587354593919
Such a beautifully done site. I might be in love already . Many kudos.
I dropped in a suggestion to do one on an umbrella. There's a lot going on in these. One can study the differential geometry of surfaces. The mechanism design of opening and closing.
I find both the spring ones (push button) and the ones without spring quite fascinating. In fact the ones without a spring has implicit ones imposed by the bending of the spokes.
I've always enjoyed that the cam surface for that particular push-push mechanism design (click pen) is not that dissimilar from a Leibniz wheel. It's so tempting to add more steps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_wheel
I can't help myself and have to link some of my favorite youtube channels.
Engineerguy: https://youtube.com/@engineerguyvideo
Chris Staecker: https://youtube.com/@ChrisStaecker
Don't forget thang010146[0], an absolute treasure.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@thang010146
Meta: confusing typo in title. Mods , please fix penciN -> penciL. Thanks.
Fixed, thanks!