Intermittent mechanism

OK, let's pretend that you have a really cool toy car that moves by itself. But instead of rolling all the time, like a regular car, it stops and starts, stops and starts. This is what we call intermittent movement.

Now, let's imagine that you want to know how your toy car works, how it's able to move like that. Well, inside there are different pieces, like a battery that powers a motor. But there's also something called an intermittent mechanism.

This is like a special switch that's connected to the motor. It makes the motor turn on and off at certain times, so that the car stops and starts moving. Imagine you have a light switch in your room, and when you turn it on, the light comes on, and when you turn it off, the light goes off. That's kind of like what the intermittent mechanism does.

In your toy car, there may be different patterns of stopping and starting, depending on how the intermittent mechanism is set up. It could move for a short time, stop, then move again for a longer time, stop again, and so on.

So that's what an intermittent mechanism is – it's like a switch that controls how something moves by turning it off and on at specific intervals.