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I've been making hinges. Very small hinges. Very normal thing to do!

Video soon talking about why Hinges Are Actually Kinda Hard to Design ™️ (for space anyway 😇)!

10 months ago | [YT] | 1,424



@joshuaszabo

The craziest thing is that I have been needing a miniature hinge design lately, so the timing is impeccable

10 months ago | 33  

@mykhailyna1

Looks like one of those you find in a folding phone

10 months ago | 30  

@gur262

When your friends think you are unhinged, start making hinges

9 months ago | 8  

@Protostar-Aerospace

May you repost your video on uow to make a NASA heat shield at home?

1 month ago | 1

@Redcactus5

Just don’t listen to the voices telling you to consume the bearings

10 months ago (edited) | 9  

@Juniperrrrrr

I can imagine at least some of the challenges in hinge design. Like take a laptop hinge for example. That lid is a massive lever arm, and somehow the hinge is tuned just right to hold the position, but also be easy to move the screen by hand! Considering how small the hinge is, and how big the screen is, the hinge must have quite large forces inside it!

10 months ago | 4  

@kendokaaa

Man I love when people machine tiny parts out of metal

10 months ago | 2  

@MaxNippard

That's a beautiful looking hinge. Not often you find ball bearings integrated

10 months ago | 2  

@AzaB2C

Tiny cute hinges with bearings. Awesome, this is the material I need to defend myself when my wife accuses me of being OCD. Thank you so much for the ammunition!

9 months ago | 1  

@michaelmalenchek4575

Deception! I will not be fooled! He secretly made a massive hyper realistic hand prop and micro SD card. He then put a normal sized hinge next to them for this post. I can tell by how the lighting refracts on the table.

10 months ago | 10  

@Lukesab3r

It's amazing what opens up when you have the ability and the tools. Those look awesome!

10 months ago | 3  

@42468

you’re almost at a scale where you can use watch jewels as bearing surfaces

9 months ago | 0  

@OperationDarkside

Will it include an unhinged rant?

10 months ago | 2  

@logangrimnar3800

CALL ME UNHINGED *NOW*, YOUR HONOR!

10 months ago | 2  

@bryan.conrad

Very hinged behavior, really

10 months ago | 2  

@ehdeesign

We do space hinges also. Second orbital parts we did.

9 months ago | 0  

@ToBeatADeadHorse

Bro that’s amazing work, idk what I’d use these for but I want some

9 months ago | 3  

@TrumpstienPhile

"Normal small hinges" -knowing MR taps they are probably built to take to take the force of a comet strike and 3 are atoms thick

9 months ago | 0  

@Convolutedtubules

It seemed kinda feasible until I saw the bearings.

9 months ago | 0

@ThootenTootinTabootin

Seem about normal sized to me.

10 months ago | 0