Music Box Cylinder

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Taking a cue from all of the lovely gears appearing on thingiverse recently, I sat down with openSCAD and figured out once and for all how to use rotate and translate together to make gears. The result is a reasonably typical music box cylinder with adjustable tooth and braille count. This version is probably not well formed for MakerBots, but could be sintered. I have an idea for a MakerBot version, but it's running late ;) \todo: Accompanying worm gear (or spring, clutch, drive gear assembly?) Comb Base/Box Instructions Open up the scad file and look for the rows array variable. This array is full of zeros and ones. Change to a one if you want to generate a braille to strike the comb at that point. Basically, you are turning computer code into a physical binary representation, kind of like a punchcard or Jacquard loom. Neat!