The Endless Gear Machine

14,348,907 RevolutionsThat's how many times the motor must turn the first gear to get the last gear to rotate once. With a series of 15 gears with an average gear ratio of 1:3, it takes 3^15 or 14,348,907 revolutions for the Endless Gear Machine to complete one full cycle.Here's a timelapse of the machine running for 10 minutes at 10x speed.Designed as a simple mathematical art piece, the Endless Gear Machine takes its time to show you the power of exponential growth. At one second per revolution, it takes approximately 166 days to complete one full cycle. Utilizing the gearbox motor that comes with the Bambu Lab Marble Run Kit, you too can print out and run your own machine that takes an agonizingly long time to complete a meaningless task. Each profile provided has all the parts laid out for ease of printing for those of you with Bambu Lab Printers/Bambu Studio. For other slicers/printers, here is the list of components needed (downloadable through the ‘Raw Model Files’ butto