I tested this famous $300 hand-crank coffee grinder — and it's worth every penny
Comandante also makes the C60 Baracuda and X25 Trailmaster grinders. If you thought the $277 C40 was pricey, wait until you ...
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Mechanical Turing Machine Can Compute Anything…slowly
His hand-cranked machine uses magnets to lift the input symbols from the grid, processing them according to the rules table he routed out of a wood block. The implementation is definitely clever ...
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WW1: Did the machine-gun save lives?
When, in 1861, Dr Richard Gatling patented the Gatling gun – one of the first reliable hand-cranked machine-guns – his humanitarian vision was based on a desire to end wars. He believed that ...
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Monstrous marble machine returns to the Renaissance for Gen3
Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles) The mechanism is hand-cranked to run a fly-wheel. The melodious output is pre-programmed via raised pins on huge rotating wheels ...
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Tiny Chain-Link Fence Made With Hand-Cranked Brilliance
Chain link fences are woven with a mechanism that is almost hypnotic to watch, so [Levsha] decided to build his own tiny hand-crank tabletop ... how badly we want some machine tools.
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This Vintage Pasta Crank Makes Flawless Cavatelli in Minutes
Related: Cavatelli con Aglio, Olio, e Mentuccia Made by the Berarducci Brothers Manufacturing Company in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, the BeeBo is a small hand-cranked machine with wooden rollers ...