Long Way Round

Plan a playful table-top chain-reaction machine that does one dull job the long way round - drop a tea bag into a mug, ring a desk bell - from the things on your table. Free in the browser: every part read for what it can be (a row to topple, a roller, a ramp, a tube, a cup, string, a lever, a prop, a weight), anything hot, sharp or glass left out, and the machine planned stage by stage so each motion hands on to the next, drawn on a wooden table with a play-through, every hand-off rated, a run time and a verdict by a fixed rule (short a part, fiddly, ready to run), plus exports. One metered task writes the engineer's notes: each stage's set-up, hand-off, what to watch for and one tweak, the first test, safety and a sign-off; the page checks every note against its plan. A toy, not professional advice. Built on @selfdriven-octo/mechanical-engineer.