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Date: July 26th, 2009

TV deployment linkage

26 July, 2009 (05:04) | Linkage Animations | By: admin

Mikhail Zhuk generated this animation of Jerome Choe’s concept for a six-bar linkage that rotates a 70in TV monitor down from the ceiling around a virtual pivot positioned down from the ceiling and in front of the wall. We hope to build a physical prototype. (UCI Robotics and Automation Lab)
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Cam-driven artist mechanical toy

26 July, 2009 (00:35) | Lecture Notes | By: admin

This video shows the operation of a cam-driven toy artist.
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I found it on Dug North’s Automata/Automaton blog, http://dugnorth.com/blog/

My class notes on cam-follower systems can be downloaded at the link: http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-Cams2.pdf

Lecture notes on cam-follower systems

Lecture notes on cam-follower systems