Comment on Even better than a cart of apples

• RubberElectrons@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I as well. Seattle transit, NEC Amtrak and NJ transit live off of these. If these systems work for them, they’ll work for us all

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• someacnt_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Is it simple? It looks quite complicated, but maybe that’s just me forgetting how to compute forces.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    simple in that it’s just a clever series of wires and pulleys, not some sort of digital adjustment device, i suppose

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    • verstra@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Also, you are looking at a few different wires at once here. Each separate wire is tensioned with a mechanism with a few moving parts.

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