#mechanism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #mechanism, aggregated by home.social.
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Sharkey's Shootout (Stern, 2000) has a Totally-Not-Magic-8ball toy, the Mystery Ball as a playfield toy. It sits above a spot where the left ramp is split into two habitrails and uses a magnet to divert the ball into the left one if needed.
Below the case is a spinning dome that has cutouts with all the prizes listed. The dome sits on an encoder ring that interrupts opto switches below it. The game uses them to determine when the dome aligns with the cutout in the shell and to figure out the dome's orientation.
I think the idea is technically neat, but the effect is pretty underwhelming and it gets a bit old seeing it rotate the dome twice before revealing the prize. But the whole thing is pretty complex thing for something that nowdays would have been implemented as a cheap LCD or OLED display instead.
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@nuwagaba2 In 500 characters? I don't think #humans will come up with one - I strongly suspect that #Gaia will impose one - Gaia being the complex self-defence #mechanism of the #biosphere - & we won't like the result, because it will entail (a) a drastic #reduction in the #global #human #population, (b) a big cut in global #GDP, & (c) a radical simplification of our #technology.
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The #rosechafer #Cetonia #aurata (#Scarabaeidae) is distributed across #Europe and parts of #Asia. The #larvae develop in #decaying #treestumps, #compost, or #antnests. F. Karolyi et al. (2008) used #cryoSEM and discovered that in adult beetles, the #secretion-covered #setae on the #galeae (a #mouthparts component) trap #pollen, a previously unknown #mechanism. #Evolution
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@sanders.senate.gov Even summaries are too long to put here (full report below), but it says it's a great idea you have. It easily works in #Washington State. Of course it would work so much better if we could come together nationally. #AI is the perfect #funding #mechanism for ending #homelessness.
Washington Housing Endowment E... -
The IG Metall union is considering a new approach for the next round of collective wage negotiations in the automotive sector. Union representatives are advocat... https://news.osna.fm/?p=60330 | #news #boost #corporate #ig #mechanism
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AI doesn't know how to forgive and cannot forget
https://tejassuds.com/blog/ai-cannot-forget
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859047
#HackerNews #AI #Forgiveness #MachineLearning #AI #Ethics #Forgetting #Mechanism
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Wooden Piano Keys Hold Your Less-Wooden, Not-Piano Keys
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terraforming user interface
#Terraforming #Mechanism #Landscape #SciFi #Futuristic #Decorative #Fantasy
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusionon things you don't have to modify: https://aieris.art/featured/terraforming-user-interface-eris-and-ai.html
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#mechanism : a system of parts working together
- French: mécanisme
- German: der Mechanismus
- Italian: meccanismo
- Portuguese: mecanismo
- Spanish: mecanismo
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"The only cassette mechanism being made" myth BUSTED!
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The #management of holdbacks for #water #transfers is a small but important #mechanism of maintaining #river flows in over-allocated basins and under diminished flows due to the impacts of #climateChange. Relying on the largesse of decision-makers to meet #future instream flow needs puts aquatic #health at #risk.
#Emergency Statutes Amendment Act, 2024 (Bill 21):
The Emergency Statutes Amendment Act amends three acts to give the #province more #authority during #emergencies.
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#PrintingPress #Press #Machine #Ink #Mechanism #YouTube #Video #Historical #History #Printer #PrintingMachine #Machine #Machines #Technology What a fantastic machine, and in many respects it’s one of the most important ever created…
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Since Doctor Who's mini playfield is getting its spa day, here's the 3rd level mechanism. The 3 Daleks are flyaway targets, a relative of drop targets except they get hang off something and turn horizontally when hit. Not that common mechanism, I think Bally's Speak Easy had bunch of these.
They have a small metal flap to keep them in the "dropped" state once you whack them with a ball. There's a unified release mechanism for all 3 at the side, which is actuated by a roller just below the playfield.
The game has to take the whole mini playfield down one level to reset these, which is why after each jackpot collect it seems to go down and then back up for no apparent reason. The game doesn't know their status, there's a normal micro switch elsewhere and these are purely ornamental, you can score the jackpot even if they were all missing.
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Four score drums, with the three above the first one all moving because they hit the overflow position where a 9 moves to a 0, pushing the next drum one up.
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🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots
👉 nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02247-2
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🍄 Friendly #fungi hijack #plant regulator to promote #symbiosis - study uncovers #mechanism that helps fungi to colonize plant #roots
👉 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-026-02247-2
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https://nachrichten.idw-online.de/2026/03/11/friendly-fungi-hijack-plant-regulator-to-promote-symbiosis -
The mathematical theory of linkages was once found beautiful, but is now comparatively unknown.
One of its highlights was what Florian Cajori (1859–1930) called the ‘beautiful discovery’ of the Peaucellier–Lipkin linkage (found independently in 1864 and 1871), a simple mechanism that transforms circular motion into linear motion (see attached image).
The importance of such a mechanism is that it can produce straight-line motion without using guide-rails and thus reducing friction. Previous linkages such as James Watt's (1736–1819) only *approximated* straight-line motion.
J.J. Sylvester, (1814–97) (who characterized his mathematical work as ‘the worship of the True & Beautiful’) admired a pump based on the linkage for ‘[i]ts elegance, and the frictionless ease with which it can be worked (beauty as usual the stamp and seal of perfection)’.
When the physicist William Thomson (later Baron Kelvin; 1824–1907) was able to work a model of the linkage, he was reluctant to hand it back, saying: ‘No! I have not had nearly enough of it — it is the most beautiful thing I have seen in my life’.
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#linkage #mechanism #mechanics #Kelvin #Sylvester #MathematicalBeauty
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What are the effects of the presence of polyethylene glycol in macromolecular crystals? #PolyethyleneGlycol #Mechanism #Crystallization https://doi.org/10.1107/S2053230X2501043X
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How to fairly split room rent with friends such that everyone is happy?
Short explainer: Mechanism design for fair room allocation and rent division.
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From Dr. G. Zander’s Medico-Mechanische Gymastik (1892).
Source: Tekniska Museet / Flickr: The Commons
https://pdimagearchive.org/images/1f7c4076-fe17-430a-b001-19354d7bb660
#muscles #exercise #fitness #equipment #mechanism #art #publicdomain
