MecCirc project

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The idea here is to do some scale transposed prototyping of
the mechanical analogs to analog electrical elements (and basic circuits).

It seems this has lesser potential for macroscole co-use
than some of the other of the ReMec projects like e.g.
a concrete ReChain instance of the the ReChain frame systems sub-project.

Mechanical quantities of force/torque and linear/angular speed
being vectorial rather than scalar as in the electrical case
makes sets of standard elements more challenging.
★ It is a bigger design space for the mechanical analogs.
★ It is an additional less or more achievable challenge
… to factor directionality apart from core function
… as is what would be a desired separation of concerns.

Desired standard elements

See: Mechanical-electrical analogies

• capacitors => springs (linear & coil)
• inductors => reciprocative masses & flywheels
• resistors => friction elements (easy fro macroscale, interesting for nanoscale, see: snap-back
• transistors => clutches
• no clean analog => gear train & sprocket chain transmissions (these work purely linear reciprocative too)
• transformer => no clean analog
• trivial wire forks => complex mechanical differentials
  incuding: planetary gearboxes, linear recirocative analogs (whippletrees & ZigZag differentials)

Related

• Mechanical-electrical analogies

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• Nanomechanic circuits
• Mechanical circuit element
• Mechanical pulse width modulation
• PWM converter & Mechanical pulse width modulation

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• Analogies and their dangers
• Lagrangian mechanics for nanomechanical circuits

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• Mechanical computation

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• Drive subsystem of a gem-gum factory
• Lagrangian mechanics for nanomechanical circuits