Mechanical Design 101 » Lecture Notes

Cam-driven artist mechanical toy

admin — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 00:35:52 +0000

This video shows the operation of a cam-driven toy artist.
Click here to view the embedded video.

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

Elementary Robotics

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 04:07:53 +0000

The basic properties of robots can developed by studying planar serial chains. Select this link for my notes on elementary robotics:
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-5.pdf

Elementary Robotics

CMU’s Introduction to Mechanisms

admin — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:02:53 +0000

Yi Zhang, Susan Finger and Stephannie Behrens have prepared an on-line introduction to mechanisms consisting of eight chapters and almost 100 figures. Access it at the link:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rapidproto/mechanisms/tablecontents.html

Four-bar linkage analysis: Slider-crank

admin — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:20:08 +0000

The slider-crank is an important mechanism with a wide range of applications. Here are my notes on its kinematic analysis.
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-3.pdf

Slider-crank analysis

Four-bar linkage analysis: 4R quadrilateral

admin — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:29:40 +0000

The four-bar linkage is a basic machine component. It comes in two primary forms the 4R quadridlateral and the slider-crank. Here are my notes for the analysis of the 4R quadrilateral.
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-2.pdf

Four-bar linkage analysis

DC motor torque and power

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 22:10:27 +0000

A copy of my notes on DC motor torque and power can be downloaded at the link:
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/McCarthyNotes-1.pdf

Motor Torque and Power

DC motor basics

admin — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:49:36 +0000

The basic principles of DC motors are presented by Joe Wolfe of the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) at the link:
http://www.animations.physics.unsw.edu.au/jw/electricmotors.html

Phyclips from UNSW

Northwestern University (Chicago, Illinois) presents the basics of a DC motor in the Wiki page:
http://hades.mech.northwestern.edu/wiki/index.php/Brushed_DC_Motor_Theory

Northwestern University Wiki page

Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

admin — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:38:57 +0000

This is a link to notes on Geometric Design and Tolerancing by Prof. Graeme Britton of Raffles Design Institute, Singapore:
http://www.docin.com/p-6099896.html

Prof. Britton's Notes on GD&T

A pdf version of Prof. Britton’s lecture is available at:
http://synthetica.eng.uci.edu/~mccarthy/mechanicaldesign101/GDandT.pdf