This exhibit is composed of a series of peg walls, boxes, and tables. Visitors are able to use construction sets including pulleys, stretchy bands, struts, bars, joining plates, pins, and straps to construct complex structures. A central component of this exhibit is a vertical build station, which can be a large peg wall or a wall with four mechanisms incorporated into it that perform the following

 

Functions:

• Windshield Wipers: Demonstrates how rotary motion is translated into an oscillating motion

• Cam: Demonstrates the motion of a ball being pushed using a cam follower riding on an obliquely shaped cam

• Piston: Demonstrates how rotary motion is translated into linear motion.

• Geneva Gear: Demonstrates how a constant rotary motion is translated into an intermittent rotary motion.

 

The versions of this exhibit also include round storage bins, strut storage bins, and wall storage bins to house parts.

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Location:

Thinkery, Austin, TX

Science North, Sudbury, Ontario