These Simple Animations Teach You How All Kinds of Gears and Clutches Work

Now retired from a career engineering, Duc Thang Nguyen has taken on a new hobby: modeling how gears work. Thanks to Autodesk Inventor, he's been able to "prototype" a staggering number of contraptions on his YouTube page, showing how they move.

He's made a lot of these videos—1,700 of them. There are so many mechanisms that Nguyen has also put together a handy guide to all of his animations. Here are a few great ones, but head over to his collection and get lost in the couplings, differentials, gears, and clutches.

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