Pulleys are used to help lift many things. Lifts, window blinds and cranes often use pulley systems. Let’s change gear to look at gears. Gears are also wheels attached to a fixed axle ...

The solution? A pulley system to make everything easier. The concept is simple. [Barnso]’s system uses three pulleys. The headphone cable goes to the PC, and then runs over the first pulley.

[Skyentific] has been messing with robotic joints for quite a while, and demonstrated an interesting way to use a pulley system in a robotic joint with quite a bit of mechanical advantage and zero ...