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Friction ball drive - for 'gear' reduction

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vtsteam:
Yes very interesting -- didn't see this one until now for some reason. Great work sorveltaja as usual, great ideas and really well executed.

(To those not able to see pix, it's your overly protective browser's or security add-on's fault -- unnecessarily blocking the origin of those pix which is located in Finland : www.elisanet.fi . If you have access to your settings, just change them to allow that domain.)

Sea.dog:
I can't even see any indication that there are any images. Strange, because I used to be able to see them.

vtsteam:
See if you can set your browser to view "insecure" web content.

The problem is that Google and Firefox both decided a few years ago that normal http links are "dangerous" and thence forward all websites viewable in their browsers must have a security certificate and tag everything as https. This killed massive amounts of photos, links etc. across the internet. They remain, but they simply aren't viewable because your browser refuses to do so. That's what's happening here.

You can change that in a setting on most Mozilla based browsers (like Firefox) to allow http, or so called "insecure" links. Then you can continue to see all of the content generated traditionally on the web for the last couple of decades.

BTW, there is nothing wrong with http for just viewing information on the net. Frankly unless you're banking or purchasing something at a website, https and so called "security" certificates aren't needed, nor if actually present do they absolutely guarantee actual "security" anyway.

But it sure hurt small websites and forums to block their long standing content, and increase their costs by forcing them to purchase and maintain security certificates. Certificates are available from, not surprisingly, the biggest browser enterprise of all, which through one of its subsidiaries also provides popular videos to supercede all that old uncontrolled and unmonetizable web content, which it now blocks.

Anyway, long explanation. It's usually changeable in a browser setting.

sorveltaja:
That browser issue is odd, or perhaps not. One way could be to test something like Waterfox portable, which doesn't need to be installed, and if the images show up, maybe use it as a "backup browser" for such situations. Another way could be Tor-browser. From what I understand, it should circumvent at least some of the 'limits' that most popular (updated) browsers seem to have.

I have a bad habit of using an old version of Firefox. Generally the web pages show and work like they should, but if not, I have also more up-to-date browsers installed.

As for the project itself, I actually haven't needed such a multiturn pot since the vocoder project. But who knows, maybe in some of the future projects. It's funny how one forgets completely all the details about past projects, when time goes by, such as how to calculate the (approximate as it's gearless) ratio of the sun/planet/ring like in this project. In fact, I had to look it out some time ago, and yeah, I came here to check how I did it.   

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