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BASIC GEARS Just a quick project that includes basic gears that may be used for other things. Useful in learning about gear ratios (e.g., if you're trying decide if you really want to be an ME). The sprites are not very general, since they use a lot of global variables, but they're pretty easy to understand, so I preferred to do them this way for now. I think if you were to make a game using gears, you would want to have some broadcasting between gears that touch, etc. I will leave that to more clever programmers... And if you found this project when you searched for "gears of war," I apologize.
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i was looking for gears of war but it made me laugh to know that it happens
a little bit more and you have your own "crazy machines" ;-) i like it
i seriously don't mind that this is what i found when i searched for gears of war. this is cool
That's a great demo of basic gear technology
very clever!
oh. ME is "mechanical engineering"
really what's me
ME?
AWSOME!
Great!
I'm already an ME and I love this!
All of your projects are awesome!!
Please!
Could you add this to my gallerie? Its called "The World of Projects". I don't have very many so far.
Wow! You're a real beauty when it comes to programing.
Three Scripts? I'll puzzle over this for a while before I peek. A Favorite.
Wow! another of your amazing physics models. I just downloaded it and had a look at your code: I just love the way you made it so simple, especially how the second and third gears reposition themselves if you change their size. Very smart, a favorite!
Very impressive
its still very good, and it is impressive how you managed to make it so that as size and speed changed, so did the way they reacted with one another--just like w/real gears! its a fav.
natalie: lego gears is a good idea. they will appear to mesh better graphically than the ones I used (I chose small teeth so it wasn't obvious that they don't really connect correctly).
Nice! Now I am also wanting a version that features LEGO gears (e.g., 8 tooth, 40-tooth) and helps people understand the principle of gearing down.