Pittsburgh Arts, Regional Theatre, New Work, Producing, Copyright, Labor Unions,
New Products, Coping Skills, J-O-Bs...
Theatre industry news, University & School of Drama Announcements, plus occasional course support for
Carnegie Mellon School of Drama Faculty, Staff, Students, and Alumni.
CMU School of Drama
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Mechanisms: Lead Screws and Ball Screws
Hackaday: Translating rotary motion to linear motion is a basic part of mechatronic design. Take a look at the nearest 3D-printer or CNC router — at least the Cartesian variety — and you’ll…
So this article was interesting to me due to the that it wished to address the desire to use screws to transfer rotational motion into linear motion. This was a interesting article in that I have never really thought of the concept of ball screws as a thing at all. I love reading these mechanism articles because they always makes me think of new and interesting ways to view the world and scan it in a effort to to see these mechanisms in action in the world. I honestly did chuckle when the article made fun of the concept of just using threaded rod instead of screw transfer, some thing that we had done when we were making the strandbeast last year in TD V. I really hope that we are able to have more of these article to be able to read and discover new and fascinating mechanisms to study.
Now, this was an article that really strikes my interest because it is something that I am not as familiar with than the rest of the tools in a shop. I have never used a CNC router so some of the references went completely over my head in this article. After reading this article, I did find that a lead screw was something that was a little bit more familiar than a ball screw but I am still unclear as to their practical application. This is not the articles fault because clearly it is written for people with a higher understanding of the technology and for people who have run into problems with this technology. I think this is a great article that represents that experience is sometimes greater than education and I hope that in the future I will be able to find more use from reading this article.
2 comments:
So this article was interesting to me due to the that it wished to address the desire to use screws to transfer rotational motion into linear motion. This was a interesting article in that I have never really thought of the concept of ball screws as a thing at all. I love reading these mechanism articles because they always makes me think of new and interesting ways to view the world and scan it in a effort to to see these mechanisms in action in the world. I honestly did chuckle when the article made fun of the concept of just using threaded rod instead of screw transfer, some thing that we had done when we were making the strandbeast last year in TD V. I really hope that we are able to have more of these article to be able to read and discover new and fascinating mechanisms to study.
Now, this was an article that really strikes my interest because it is something that I am not as familiar with than the rest of the tools in a shop. I have never used a CNC router so some of the references went completely over my head in this article. After reading this article, I did find that a lead screw was something that was a little bit more familiar than a ball screw but I am still unclear as to their practical application. This is not the articles fault because clearly it is written for people with a higher understanding of the technology and for people who have run into problems with this technology. I think this is a great article that represents that experience is sometimes greater than education and I hope that in the future I will be able to find more use from reading this article.
Post a Comment