VARIOMATIC (MINT LAB)

Instructions

 Variomatic.pdf

Product description

The fascinating thing about a gearbox is the fact that it can both add up and minimize driving forces. The Antikythera mechanism, an astronomical clock, is the ancient example of a planetary gear that functions as a summing gear. With the astronomical clock, from the period between the 70th and 60th centuries BC. BC, calendar contexts could be reflected. In contrast, the compass car, a mobile direction indicator, which was over 2,000 years older, worked with a subtraction gear. Nowadays, it is impossible to imagine automobiles without the differential as a distribution and epicyclic gear transmission. Its inventor is none other than Leonardo da Vinci. The new UGEARS MINT model VARIOMATIC is an artistic homage to these drive technologies.

The main components in a transmission are the gears and the drive axles. The gear can already mobilize various driving forces in the form of a spur or bevel gear or a rack or worm. With the mechanical didactic model kit VARIOMATIC, the work of a continuously variable drive gear (Variable Transmission) can be perfectly tracked and thus brings real shivers of joy not only to the technically savvy target audience. The open design of the retro-futuristic work of art can be realized with practiced hands within just a few hours. There are 104 precisely prefabricated wooden components available. Once completed, the continuously variable drive transmission ( CVT-Continuously Variable Transmission ) can function as a training object and offers much deeper insights via the QR code supplied and the available AR APP. So the motto is: shift fork on and switched to speed. The mechanical power is redirected to the respective drive and reduction gears via belts.

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