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Re:Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains by EzGraphs on Thursday August 01, 2013 @07:15AM (#6139524)
Reminds me of Mindstorms:

http://www.amazon.com/Mindstorms-Children-Computers-Powerful...

In the intro of the book Seymour A. Papert describes how gears provided an early concrete framework that made understanding abstract mathematical concepts presented at a later point much easier to visualize and apply.

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