Clockwork Rules and Safe Experiments

Card 1How do meshed gears change direction?Reveal answer AnswerEach meshed gear reverses the direction of the previous gear.Show question Card 2What is a safe first experiment?Reveal answer AnswerA low-stakes, observable, reversible test.Show question Card 3Why change one variable at a time?Reveal answer AnswerSo the result can teach which change mattered.Show question Card 4What defines a successful mechanism?Reveal answer AnswerIts constraints: load, range, size, time, and safety.Show question Card 5What should every improvised device have?Reveal answer AnswerA stop condition and a way to reverse or abandon it.Show question Card 6What does a jammed prototype provide?Reveal answer AnswerEvidence about conditions the design cannot yet handle.Show question