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Show HN: I made Gyroscopic Gyro Sandwiches
Cooking food uniformly has been something that mankind has approached a number of times over the centuries, oddly, it inspired all rotary motion advancement. Leonardo da Vinci devised a 'smoke jack' that used the hot air from a stove to rotate food in the late 1450's [1] .
I devised the rough plan shown above: Bend it into hoops, connect with hardware, motorize & model the system dynamics, and finally make some delicious and entertaining food for friends. Welding medium wall tubing to a solid shaft can be tricky, specifically for aluminum, however due to stainless steel's terrible thermal conductivity it was remarkably not bad. This was helpful to get the right rotation rate, as the chaos for this system is driven by the offset mass + gravity, spinning too quickly pushes you into gimbal-lock conditions, and too slowly does not have adequate activation energy for higher order motion.
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