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Links to student design projects

Six-bar Trash Dumping Linkage

17 July, 2010 (00:00) | Linkage Animations, Student Projects | By: admin

This compact six-bar linkage is designed to lift and dump a trash can.  Eddie Lee, Peter Lim, Khemara Tep and Kevin Hung worked on the design and construction of the prototype.

This is the SolidWorks animation:

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This is a video of the operation of the prototype:

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Six-bar Shelf Linkage

16 July, 2010 (23:46) | Linkage Animations, Student Projects | By: admin

This six-bar linkage is designed to move a shelf from a position down and forward to a stowed position up and away.

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Monitor Six-bar Linkage

8 July, 2010 (14:45) | Linkage Animations, Student Projects | By: admin

This video shows our latest model for the six-bar linkage that deploys and stows a television monitor.  This was designed and built by Eddie Lee, Peter Lim, Khemara Tep and Kevin Hung.

This is a SolidWorks animation of this six-bar linkage:

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This is a video of the prototype:
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2010 Formula SAE California

17 June, 2010 (05:24) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

The Formula SAE California collegiate race car engineering competition opened June 16, 2010 at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, CA. Student built racecars from all over the world can be seen in photos from this first day of the event. Here is a link to photos of the first day and a link to the 2010 event guide

Pictures from Day 2 can be found at the SAE SoCal facebook page.

PIctures from Day 3 are now available as the Facebook album.

The results are available at the link FSAE California results.

Autonomous Table Soccer at UCI

16 June, 2010 (13:40) | Student Projects | By: admin

The student project for UCI’s MAE 106 mechanical systems laboratory uses a pneumatic kicker to deflect two balls away from its own goal and push them toward the opponents goal.
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2010 UCI Energy Invitational, Irvine CA

30 May, 2010 (16:14) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

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The UCI Energy Invitational has competitors run on a course that combines highway, autocross and metered idle sections with only $1.00 of the energy of their choice.  This year six entrants competed on May 23, 2010.   Teams from UC Irvine, UC Davis and Cal Poly Pomona formed the collegiate class, and an inventor’s electric three-wheeler, a first generation Honda Insight and a Smarte Car formed the enthusiast class.

Prototype spherical archway

11 August, 2009 (02:42) | Linkage Animations, Student Projects | By: admin

Smitty constructed this prototype of our spherical deployable structure. It is an assembly of spherical rhombus linkages that expands to form a semi-circular structure.
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Six-bar linkage prototypes

11 August, 2009 (02:36) | Linkage Animations, Student Projects | By: admin

Here are two videos of our first attempt to build prototypes for some of our six-bar linkage design concepts. These models were built by Steve and Justin with guidance from Smitty.

This is the six-bar linkage that guides a bottom drawer to a position that is level with the top drawer. The links were cut from aluminum and are wobbly.
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This six-bar linkage deploys a television display from a horizontal position in the ceiling to a vertical position for viewing. The links are welded steel tube, and the system moves more smoothly.
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Collegiate Formula racing around the world

17 July, 2009 (19:00) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Mathias Kastens maintains a site that closely tracks student formula teams, design activities and competition details around the world. Access it at the link:
http://www.fstotal.com

2009 Formula SAE California

3 July, 2009 (07:27) | Automotive Information, Student Projects | By: admin

Here is a link to a facebook album showing the racecars and teams at the 2009 Formula SAE California intercollegiate engineering racecar competition that occurred June 17-21, 2009 at the Auto Club Raceway, Fontana CA.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=89098&id=92647534369