Fibonacci Gear

[Mireille Kreines]

Size without finding: 19mm x 25mm
The thickness of plates and gears in this piece is 5mm when using thin gears, and 8mm when using thick gears.
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Please note, I am an Engineer but I am by no means an expert on gears, I have found calculations online and made some assumptions and conclusions of my own, if I am incorrect anywhere please feel free to correct me, just please be nice about it :-).

Nautilus gears only work in pairs where both gears are the same size, this results in a 1:1 gear ratio but the delivery of this ratio is quite unusual. If you rotate the driver gear at a constant speed, the driven gear will rotate at a constantly varying speed.

I then drew a simple gear tooth using a triangle 7mm across the base and 7mm tall, I used the filet tool to round all the edges. Please note that this is only rough and not sound gear design, there are complex mathematics involved in gear tooth design.

I decided to use some Mechano, unfortunately the centers on the gears did not match up with the Mechano so I had to make the adjustable support you see in the pictures. This part was all don on the fly and I don't have any real design for this but you are all clever people and I'm sure you can make up a better mount!

As I tried to run the gears, my lack of gear design knowledge became apparent. I needed to remove the curved bumper between the large and small end of the curve but keep the teeth. The first and last teeth needed to be shaped with a file in order to run semi smoothly.

The stoke of pump requires more force at the end of the stroke than the start, torque is inversely proportional to speed so as the gear is in the fast portion of the cycle its torque is low, as is slows, the torque increases. This may make pumps run a little more efficiently... opinions.....

Cars with a manual transmission require the driver to change gears as he/she is changing speed. Putting it simply, this changes how much of the rotation of the engine affects the rotation of the axles (low gears transfer rotation slowly, so that even if the engine is revved up the car does not speed up much). This is the same as how gears on a bicycle work.

Write tests for this class: think about each test objective, and then how you will test it. Remember: one test, one objective. However it may take several assert statement to test one objective: this is perfectly OK.

Write a class FibonacciCounter that represents a single Fibonacci counter. This class should contain the following:

1. A constructor that takes the initial count value and initializes the object appropriately.

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The Pisgah Mountain Bike Adventure Race (PMBAR) is a grueling day on the bike that usually involves about 70-80 miles and 10,000-12,000 feet of climbing on mostly rugged singletrack. My parter and I were doing it on singlespeeds. I knew that riding in this particular race would be tough, especially if we were to try and compete. Staying hydrated and avoiding cramping were my two biggest concerns. That being said, one issue I have when putting in a hard endurance effort is the inability to eat.

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My drawing gears have a series of holes in them that spiral toward the center of gear. Each pattern is drawn by inserting a pen point into a hole in the gear. This drawing alternates black, red and green ink in holes 1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34, the beginning of the Fibonacci sequence of numbers.

Nautilus Spiral Gears: an extreme example of non-circular gear sets. This set is based on the famous Fibonacci spiral and evokes the cross section of nautilus shell with internal chambers. If one gear of this set is turned at constant speed, the other will turn with an varying speed. A 3D print of Misha Tikh and the research of Balint et al.

Logarithmic Spiral Gears: an extreme example of non-circular gear sets. This set is based on the famous Fibonacci spiral and evokes the cross section of nautilus shell with internal chambers. If one gear of this set is turned at constant speed, the other will turn with an varying speed. A laser cut based on 3D prints of Misha Tikh and the research of Balint et al.

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Readers should be wary: some authors give the Fibonacci sequence with the initial conditions (or equivalently ). This change in indexing does not affect the actual numbers in the sequence, but it does change which member of the sequence is referred to by the symbol and so also changes the appearance of certain identities involving the Fibonacci numbers.

As with many linear recursions, we can run the Fibonacci sequence backwards by solving its recursion relation for the term of smallest index, in this case . This allows us to compute, for example, that , , , and so on. Because these preceding terms are uniquely defined by the recursion, one frequently sees the definition of the Fibonacci sequence given in the form , and for . In general, one can show that .

The ratios , , , , , ..., between successive terms of the sequence tend towards the limit , a constant often denoted (the Greek letter phi, also written ). is a solution of the quadratic equation . The other root is (the Greek letter psi). One possible explanation for this fact is that the Fibonacci numbers are given explicitly by Binet's formula. It is . (Note that this formula is valid for all integers .) It is so named because it was derived by mathematician Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, though it was already known by Abraham de Moivre and Euler before him. Another explanation is that you can continue the fibonacci numbers backward, too. Then you get something like . The ratios between successive terms has you continue backwards is .

Usually, fibonacci-like recursions show up when organisms like rabbits produce babies but babies need to grow up which takes time. Two other places are when you make domino tilings in a rectangle or when you make a string of a's and b's of a fixed length but you can't have 2 a's together. Many things can be turned into either the fibonacci recursion or another recursion that also produces the fibonacci numbers: and . There are other recursions, but these two are the most frequent.

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What are fixies, you say? Simply put, they are bikes without a free hub that have a fixed gear ratio in the drive train - you can cycle forwards and backwards. Equally, your cranks will continue turning once you gained forward momentum. You stop by putting (muscle) pressure against the momentum of the cranks - or by letting the energy roll out.

I have a wonderfully small shed in my garden that is densely packed with tools, bike-parts, gardening utilities and toys. Some of them I use frequently (conveniently placed close to the door), and most pieces I use infrequently and they seem to wander into the different boxes and shelves. No matter how often I use my tools, I am confident that they are of decent quality, fit for purpose and ready to use. So when I packed the car for the holidays, I grabbed my bike, pedals, some cleaning supplies and was ready to go, without the need of investing into any new gear.

In my previous businesses, I had a shed of spare tools and utilities as well: well maintained, ready to use and test new ideas. I could dream up an idea one night, go to my shed the next morning and executed on my idea shortly after. This agility was invaluable in the rapidly growing businesses that I built.

You, too, should have a shed full of tools, toys and utilities, for your business. Whether it be a warehouse, wooden shed, files on your drive or in the cloud: Have a space to keep tools ready so you can immediately execute on ideas when the muse kisses you.

I have gone through two broken collarbones, many crashes and bonks and still: I cannot wait to get back on my bike after such an incident. Why? Because inherently, I know that cycling gives me a special kind of joy. With fixies, there is no short-stopping, not easy last resort manoeuvre. At any point in a ride, you must remain alert and anticipate a few steps ahead, and have a (contingency) strategy at hand, should something cross your path - literally!!! Currently, I am at risk of never cycling again, should I break my left collarbone again and still I get on my brake-less fixie and go for rides. But I also know that my fitness is not contingent on me cycling. My happiness and fitness are contingent of me doing some kind of sport. Should I not cycle anymore, I will turn back to running, stretching, yoga or whatsoever. But for the time being, I will not give into a fear, just to be on a safe(r) side.

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