Ugears STEM LAB Counter

Develop on your own an engineering marvel with the UGears STEM Laboratory Counter. This gadget counts repeated actions with a click button and cylindrical numbered gears. You may see someone using a gadget like this at the gates of an amusement park or the entrance of a theater to count the variety of people getting in. This kind of counter is also an important part of the contemporary odometer, found in every automobile. Nevertheless, with this home-built design Counter, the limit to its usages is within your imagination.

The counter was first invented in ancient Greece by the mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria. The gadget is managed by a counter button on top and a turn deal with on the side. These turn the cylindrical gears with the numbers 0 to 9 written on them. There are three gears, so this counter can display any number from 0 to 999. The engineering marvel of the gadget, terrific for trainees to find out about, is the Geneva drive that manages the gears. When counting, the drive will increment the next equipment when the previous reaches 9. When you need to reset the counter, you can do so by opening the front panel and resetting manually.

This design is ranked trouble level simple and is terrific for ages 8 and up. It is also licensed by STEM.org as an authenticated educational item for assisting trainees learn and establish 21st-century skills. For education functions, the terrific feature of this design is that it can be made either with or without instructions. Offered instructions, creating a model like this is an excellent method to teach procedural instructions following and how the machine works. Without instructions, putting together the design resembles solving a puzzle, triggering crucial thinking skills.

This design has plenty of fun applications, as lots of as you can think of. You could count the number of steps it requires to receive from point A to point B. You could count the variety of vehicles that pass in front of your house in an hour. You could keep the counter on your desk and increment the counter each time a job is completed.

It is simple to construct this design right out of package. Because the information are already pre-cut, you can merely press them out of the board with no sharp-cutting knives. No glue is needed either. If you wish to personalize your Counter, you can paint the wood and include additional innovative fun to putting together the gadget. Everything you need comes in package, so no additional journeys to the hardware or craft store are needed. Putting together the UGears STEM LAB Counter and finding out about its engineering could not be easier. 

Design Size: 5.3 x 2.6 x 4.8 in
Package size: 8.1 x 7.4 x 2.5 in
Number of parts: 157
Level: Easy
Assembly Time: 2 hours
Advised Age: 8+
Package weight: 1.12 lbs
Producer: UGears