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UCLA's supermileage vehicle will race on May 20, 2012 as…
Wikipedia and mechanisms and robotics
Type “mechanism” or “robotics” into google.com…
Adjustable spinal implant
Brandon Tsuge and Tim Rasmussen developed this concept for an…
Instrument for spinal implant
This instrument is a six-bar linkage designed to separate vertebral…
2012 UCI Energy Invitational
Please contact me if you would like to join us at the 2012 UCI…
Mechanism Generator 3.0
Our Mechanism Generator 3.0 software reads a SolidWorks sketch…
Rice Transplanter
This rice transplanter selects seedlings from the hopper and…
5SS Spatial Steering Linkage
Mark Plecnik designed this spatial 5SS steering linkage to increase…
Mechanism Generator 2.0 (MechGen 2)
We have a trial version of our Mechanism Generator 2.0 software…
2011 UCI Fall Design Review
400 seniors in majors across UCI’s Henry Samueli School of…
Folding movement for wings for the Icon A5
This spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale…
Spherical linkage concept to fold a wing
This is a spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale…
Spare tire deployment linkage
Kaustubh Sonawale designed this four-bar linkage to move a truck…
Instruments for Natural Philosophy
This site has photographs of a large number of devices used to…
Mentoring program for collegiate competition teams
Mentor program for collegiate competition projects
Introduction:
SAE…
UCI Rocket launch
Here is a video of the launch of the 2011 UCI Rocket. Congratulations…
Machines on Wikipedia
I have spent quite a bit of time revising articles on machines…
Photos from Thursday, 2011 FSAE California
Select this link to access the SAE SoCal section facebook page…
2011 UCI Engineering Winter Design Review
This is a video of the 2011 Engineering Winter Design Review…
Photo of Competitors at 2011 EI2
This is a group photo of the competitors at our recent 2011…
Photos: 2011 UCI Energy Invitational
Lee-Huang Chen and Corey Sandler have posted photos from our…
UCI Seniors prepare Delta for the Energy Invitational
The UCI Delta racecar has a CNG 450cc engine combined with…
3rd Year MEs and 4th Year EEs team up to run at EI2
Third year Mechanical Engineering majors joined a team of Electrical…
1st and 2nd Year UCI Students to run in EI2
First and second year Engineering students at UCI have prepared…
Saddleback College joins 2011 Energy Invitational
Saddleback College will run their Formula V at the 2011 UCI…
MillenWorks to show LUV at 2011 Energy Invitational
MillenWorks will show their LUV (Light Utility Vehicle) at…
Toyota to show two vehicles at 2011 Energy Invitational
Toyota will demonstrate their Advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle…
Smitty’s Engineering Training Videos
The training videos that Smitty developed for our design classes…
Philip Chipman’s Electric Wind to compete in EI2
Phil Chipman, a local inventor, is returning to the UCI Energy…
UCLA Supermileage may join Energy Invitational
Melody Vo of the UCLA Super mileage team reports that the change…
Brian Wang to compete in the Energy Invitational
Brian Wang has sent some photographs of the vehicle he plans…
Revised Three-panel Hardtop Convertible Linkage
Oscar Alonso replaced the parallelogram drive linkages of the…
Kinetic Sculpture: Bucephale
This video shows a kinetic sculpture of a horse by the artist…
Spherical Four-Bar Linkages
Here is something new. Our Mathematica notebook can find…
UCI Fall 2010 Soccerbots
Entering UCI engineering students designed, built, and tested…
Geometric Design of Linkages, second edition
I am pleased to say that the second edition of my book, Geometric…
Linkage Synthesis Demonstration
This shows the operation of our Mathematica notebook for five-position…
21st Century Kinematics
This is a draft of my editorial on 21st Century Kinematics for…
2011 UCI Energy Invitational
The 2011 UCI Energy Invitational will be at Willow Springs…
Kinematics, Polynomials and Computers–A Brief History
Select this link to the .pdf of Kinematics, Polynomials,…
Peugeot 407 Convertible Hard Top
This is a video on Yahoo! that shows the movement of…
Mathematica Notebook for Four-Bar Linkage Synthesis
Select this link to download our Mathematica notebook for…
Hardtop Convertible Linkage
This SolidWorks animation of the drive linkage for a hardtop…
Six-bar Retrieval Linkage for an ROV
This six-bar linkage was designed to extend from the body of…
Six-bar Trash Dumping Linkage
This compact six-bar linkage is designed to lift and dump a trash…
Six-bar Shelf Linkage
This six-bar linkage is designed to move a shelf from a position…
Monitor Six-bar Linkage
This video shows our latest model for the six-bar linkage that…
2010 Formula SAE California
The Formula SAE California collegiate race car engineering competition…
Autonomous Table Soccer at UCI
The student project for UCI’s MAE 106 mechanical systems laboratory…
Theo Jansen’s site
My link to a video of Theo Jansen's walking machines seems unreliable,…
Technical information for mechanical components
Stock Drive Products has an array of downloadable catalogs…
2010 UCI Energy Invitational Video
The UCI Energy Invitational has competitors run on a course that…
SolidWorks Mechanism Generator
Mechanism Generator is a SolidWorks add-in that assists in…
Prototype spherical archway
Smitty constructed this prototype of our spherical deployable…
Six-bar linkage prototypes
Here are two videos of our first attempt to build prototypes…
Automotive components
Chris Longhurst has assembled a number of descriptive articles…
TV deployment linkage
Mikhail Zhuk generated this animation of Jerome Choe's concept…
Cam-driven artist mechanical toy
This video shows the operation of a cam-driven toy artist.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT01OPRU57E
I…
Linkage models at TU-Delft
Prof. A. J. Klein Breteler maintains an array of mechanism models…
Parallel Mechanisms information center
Ilian Bonev maintains bibliography and patent databases on parallel…
Kinetic horse sculpture
This articulated model horse is by the artist James Watt.
A…
Deployable archway
This animation of Jerome Choe's concept for a spherical archway…
Stackable fold-up emergency shelter
Mikhail Zhuk animated this design concept for an eight-bar linkage…
Elementary Robotics
The basic properties of robots can developed by studying planar…
CMU’s Introduction to Mechanisms
Yi Zhang, Susan Finger and Stephannie Behrens have prepared an…
Four-bar linkage analysis: Slider-crank
The slider-crank is an important mechanism with a wide range…
Four-bar linkage analysis: 4R quadrilateral
The four-bar linkage is a basic machine component. It comes in…
DC motor torque and power
A copy of my notes on DC motor torque and power can be downloaded…
Mechanical Properties of Steel
The MatWeb site provides detailed information about materials…
Unified Numbering System for Materials
There are a variety of numbering systems for materials such as…
Koenigsegg door system
The doors of the Koenigsegg CCX open using the "dihedral synchro-helix…
Material Properties Charts
Cambridge University provides a useful overview of materials…
Comparison of Klann and Jansen leg linkages
Joseph Klann provided a useful comparison of the leg designs…
Mondo Spider walking machine
This walking machine is known as the Mondo Spider. More information…
Theo Jansen’s walking machine
Theo Jansen builds amazing walking machines.
Each leg is an…
NIST Periodic Table
The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides…
Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
This is a link to notes on Geometric Design and Tolerancing by…
Linkage for an RV deployable top
This design concept is an 8-bar linkage developed by Minshan…
Dishwasher linkage
This linkage to lift the lower rack in a dishwasher was developed…
2009 Formula SAE California
Here is a link to a facebook album showing the racecars and teams…
Materials Selection in Mechanical Design
Michael Ashby presents materials information in a practical format…
10-bar drive linkage
This 10-bar linkage is designed to drive a scissors movement…
Timing belt theory
ThomasNet provides a link to a useful white paper on Timing Belt…
Mechanisms videos at Colorado State
Prof. David Alciatore has a large number of videos illustrating…
Spherical deployable linkage assembly
This assembly of spherical rhombus linkages expands to enclose…
C. J. Sangwin’s linkage movies
Chris Sangwin has a nice collection of linkage movies at How…
Brock Engineering’s mechanism home page
Fred Klingener has generated a number of interesting mechanism…
Linkage animations on synthetica
This link connects to a web-page with a number of linkage animations.…
Kinematic models for design
The KMODDL team at Cornell University maintains an excellent…
Machine screw dimensions
According to Shigley and Mischke's Mechanical Engineering Design…
Spherical eight-bar linkage for a car door
This spherical eight-bar linkage was designed by GimSong Soh…
Diesel Engine Animations
This are two animation of the operation of a diesel engine. The…
Welcome to Mechanical Design 101
Mechanical Design 101 is a collection of resources to educate,…