<story><title>Geneva drive</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Original poster here. I thought you good people would find the Geneva drive interesting. It is so simple and elegant; similar in spirit to the elegance of a beautiful algorithm.&lt;p&gt;For further reading on the Geneva drive... don&amp;#x27;t miss the &lt;i&gt;spherical&lt;/i&gt; Geneva drive design, illustrated in figure 9-3:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/pdf/002_010.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ebooks.library.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;k&amp;#x2F;kmoddl&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;002_010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although not Geneva drive related, if you want to combine your passion of horology with human spaceflight, you will truly enjoy &amp;quot;John Glenn&amp;#x27;s Heuer&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Glenn.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.onthedash.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Glenn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, thank you all for the great, related links!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>noselasd</author><text>Reminds me of all the crazy gears they used in mechanical computers &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.youtube.com&amp;#x2F;watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Geneva drive</title><url>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Arjuna</author><text>Original poster here. I thought you good people would find the Geneva drive interesting. It is so simple and elegant; similar in spirit to the elegance of a beautiful algorithm.&lt;p&gt;For further reading on the Geneva drive... don&amp;#x27;t miss the &lt;i&gt;spherical&lt;/i&gt; Geneva drive design, illustrated in figure 9-3:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ebooks.library.cornell.edu/k/kmoddl/pdf/002_010.pdf&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;ebooks.library.cornell.edu&amp;#x2F;k&amp;#x2F;kmoddl&amp;#x2F;pdf&amp;#x2F;002_010.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although not Geneva drive related, if you want to combine your passion of horology with human spaceflight, you will truly enjoy &amp;quot;John Glenn&amp;#x27;s Heuer&amp;quot;:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onthedash.com/docs/Glenn.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.onthedash.com&amp;#x2F;docs&amp;#x2F;Glenn.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, thank you all for the great, related links!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>x0054</author><text>Thanks! For a moment there I was like &amp;quot;what the hell is this.&amp;quot; But then I found the article fascinating and then I remembered, this is what HN is all about.</text></comment>