Planar loop of odd number of cogs will not work

[zopsicle]

The following image can be found on the website:

While the caption is “Fewer moving parts”, ironically, there are no moving parts here. These gears cannot turn, because there is an odd number of them in a loop on a plane.

You could fold them along a Möbius strip though, or just insert or remove one cog.

Either way this project looks exciting, I’m gonna give it a try!

[mholt]

Indeed, zero moving parts is fewer moving parts!

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Well that's embarrassing. I can't believe they didn't teach me this in college. 🙄

I've updated the graphic to the one attached, and it will go out with the next site deploy (when the new docs site is ready). Thanks!