How It Works

This is an explanation of the mechanism behind how some machine of system works. This should reveal existing or proposed functional mechanisms/workings, or expose a Design Rationale. This can apply to hardware and software. How it works can be applied to:

• mechanisms such as gears, engines, and pulleys
• hydraulic/pneumatic
• electronic
• functions based on thermal properties
• complex systems or ecologies, where the how it works is based largely on the relationships between the parts
• how things are made
• etc

Links

• Mechanisms - http://507movements.com/
• How It's Made - [1]
• Christopher Alexander - Pattern Language