A little inspiration for you

Came across this on the inventables forum, thought it was pretty amazing work! A mechanical clockwork hummingbird sculpture. I’m pretty sure it would be possible to make almost all the parts on the Nomad, though for a few of the largest you’d need to find a machine that could do them.

He sells the plans for the thing for $99. I looked at the sample PDF, and he provides exact part numbers for all the fasteners etc at McMaster. I’m putting this into my “someday” folder…

http://www.derekhugger.com/colibri.html

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Even better than the plans is his tools page which has a Python utility for drilling holes, and .pdfs explaining various mechanical concepts and the underlying math.

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