There's a striking simplicity to this purely mechanical piece, and the serendipitous similarities between the shape of metronomes and windmills.
To fully benefit from the all-optical character of this design, it is important to demonstrate that the mechanical pieces fabricated on top of the ferruled fiber can be actuated with light.
This is a mechanical piece, with smooth planes and holes carved in, thus a particularly featureless dataset.
Steven Rossi, a former communications manager at Saab, cautioned that many of the mechanical pieces that distinguished the automaker would probably not survive the transition to new ownership.
The Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary that open the Republican nominating season are still a year away, but the mechanical pieces of the campaigns that will begin falling into place over the next six weeks will show the seriousness of the candidates.
Best known for their high-tech T-Touch watches that had touchable crystals, allowing you to activate a compass, barometer or altimeter with a single tap, the mechanical pieces have always seemed like an afterthought.
The Seastar, then, is one of the mechanical pieces they sell, and at sub-$1,000 prices you're basically getting a Swiss watch with solid power reserve and great looks.
Director Peter Cotes agreed, adding, "he had depths unrealised through the mechanical pieces in which he generally appeared"; while Philip Oakes considered that, "single-handed, he has made more films watchable, even absorbing, than anyone else around".
Once all the "mechanical" pieces are worked out, go for a test ride to make sure nothing is stuck and the chain doesn't fall off.
This paper1 describes an architecture for a system for machining and inspecting mechanical piece parts and an implementation of it called the Feature-Based Inspection and Control System (FBICS).
