Mechanical LSDs’ function was visualized in a video on YouTube from 3D Printer Academy, which printed a differential in various colors of plastic to show how it works.

[Evan Stanford] found a simpler way, though: a completely mechanical laser show from 3D-printed parts. The first 10 seconds of the video below completely explains how [Evan] accomplished this build.

In most mechanical systems, metal gears that bend are a bad thing. But not so for strain wave gearing, which is designed to take advantage of a metal gear flexing to achieve an action much like pla… ...

New York-based Proxy Design Studio has given Gizmodo a first glimpse of its incredible, 3D-printed spherical gear called the Mechaneu, equal parts tactile toy and mechanical sculpture, a mind ...

Let’s get this out of the way first: Christoph Laimer’s 3D-printed watch (with tourbillon) is large, fairly inaccurate, and only runs for about 30 ...