Reddit reviews 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices
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make a 3d printer file of every single thing found in the open source book 507 mechanical movements. make the files open source and scalable. watch as those files end up being used for a hundred years. here's a website , here's the book
I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to offend.
Your post explaining that you're the artist came after mine, so I presumed this was "found photo, shared on reddit" -- if I'd known you were sharing a personal creation, I would have tried to be more supportive/constructive.
Now I see why /u/GhostfaceHecklah was being more subtle.
 
Actual non-sarcastic congratulations on producing a finished piece of art; extra thanks for sharing it. I start a lot more projects than I finish and they never end up documented anywhere - I'm trying to work on the latter, and I'll use this comment-exchange as a learning experience on presenting my work.
I am actually trying to make a "steampunk" fountain pen. But I'm no master-clockmaker and obviously incapable of replicating the one with actual working gears, so my art would be a largely cosmetic modification to the pen-body - which has me drafting design after design but disappointed that the only ones I like are geometric and not steampunk.
 
Creating good gear-porn is hard because we're fans of an aesthetic that esteems the most complicated of machines, which are no longer produced precisely because they've been replaced by electronic versions with fewer moving parts that are simpler to manufacture.
The beauty of the many interoperating moving parts and simplicity of being able to trace with your eyes the mechanism from motive force to desired action belies the fiendish difficulty of calculating gear ratios & choosing the appropriate mechanical linkage. So we have a battery-operated modern sealed-motor-unit driving most of what we build. I think everyone's aware that we fetishize the impractically complex and accept that the art is in presenting the illusion in an aesthetically pleasing way. Thank you for your contribution.