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Chipman Wind to join the 2012 Energy Invitational

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The OC inventor Phil Chipman will enter his all electric three-wheeler…
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Tustin HS and Pacific HS invited to 2012 EI3

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High school race teams at Tustin High School and Pacifica High…
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CSULA race team to join 2012 Energy Invitational

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CSULA will bring their FSAE race car to the May 20, 2012…
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Update: UC Davis race team to join 2012 EI3

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UC Davis will travel south to join in the May 20, 2012 Energy…
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UCLA vehicle

UCLA Supermileage joining the 2012 Energy Invitational

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UCLA's supermileage vehicle will race on May 20, 2012 as…
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Engine Animation

Wikipedia and mechanisms and robotics

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Type “mechanism” or “robotics” into google.com…
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Adjustable spinal implant

Adjustable spinal implant

Brandon Tsuge and Tim Rasmussen developed this concept for an…
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Instrument for spinal implant

Instrument for spinal implant

This instrument is a six-bar linkage designed to separate vertebral…
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2012 Energy Invitational Poster

2012 UCI Energy Invitational

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Please contact me if you would like to join us at the 2012 UCI…
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MechGen 3

Mechanism Generator 3.0

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Our Mechanism Generator 3.0 software reads a SolidWorks sketch…
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Rice Transplanter

Rice Transplanter

This rice transplanter selects seedlings from the hopper and…
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5SS Spatial Steering Linkage

5SS Spatial Steering Linkage

Mark Plecnik designed this spatial 5SS steering linkage to increase…
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MechGen 2

Mechanism Generator 2.0 (MechGen 2)

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We have a trial version of our Mechanism Generator 2.0 software…
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2011 UCI Fall Design Review

2011 UCI Fall Design Review

400 seniors in majors across UCI’s Henry Samueli School of…
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Folding movement for wings for the Icon A5

Folding movement for wings for the Icon A5

This spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale…
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Spherical linkage concept to fold a wing

Spherical linkage concept to fold a wing

This is a spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale…
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Spare tire deployment linkage

Spare tire deployment linkage

Kaustubh Sonawale designed this four-bar linkage to move a truck…
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Engine Animation

Happy Holidays and Have a Great New Year

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Oberlin Sphere

Instruments for Natural Philosophy

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This site has photographs of a large number of devices used to…
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Mentoring program for collegiate competition teams

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Mentor program for collegiate competition projects Introduction: SAE…
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UCI Rocket launch

UCI Rocket launch

Here is a video of the launch of the 2011 UCI Rocket. Congratulations…
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Wikipedia Logo

Machines on Wikipedia

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I have spent quite a bit of time revising articles on machines…
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Engine Animation

Photos from Thursday, 2011 FSAE California

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Select this link to access the SAE SoCal section facebook page…
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2011 UCI Engineering Winter Design Review

2011 UCI Engineering Winter Design Review

This is a video of the 2011 Engineering Winter Design Review…
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Engine Animation

Photo of Competitors at 2011 EI2

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This is a group photo of the competitors at our recent 2011…
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Photos: 2011 UCI Energy Invitational

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Lee-Huang Chen and Corey Sandler have posted photos from our…
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Another view of UCI's Delta CNG-Electric racecar

UCI Seniors prepare Delta for the Energy Invitational

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The UCI Delta racecar has a CNG 450cc engine combined with…
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Vectored electric drive

3rd Year MEs and 4th Year EEs team up to run at EI2

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Third year Mechanical Engineering majors joined a team of Electrical…
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UCIs Beta Car

1st and 2nd Year UCI Students to run in EI2

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First and second year Engineering students at UCI have prepared…
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Saddleback College Formula V

Saddleback College joins 2011 Energy Invitational

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Saddleback College will run their Formula V at the 2011 UCI…
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MillenWorks Light Utility Vehicle

MillenWorks to show LUV at 2011 Energy Invitational

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MillenWorks will show their LUV (Light Utility Vehicle) at…
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Toyota 2010 Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle

Toyota to show two vehicles at 2011 Energy Invitational

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Toyota will demonstrate their Advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle…
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Smitty Training

Smitty’s Engineering Training Videos

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The training videos that Smitty developed for our design classes…
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Chipman's Electric Car

Philip Chipman’s Electric Wind to compete in EI2

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Phil Chipman, a local inventor, is returning to the UCI Energy…
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UCLA Supermileage

UCLA Supermileage may join Energy Invitational

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Melody Vo of the UCLA Super mileage team reports that the change…
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Brian Wang 1

Brian Wang to compete in the Energy Invitational

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Brian Wang has sent some photographs of the vehicle he plans…
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Hardtop Convertible New

Revised Three-panel Hardtop Convertible Linkage

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Oscar Alonso replaced the parallelogram drive linkages of the…
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Horse Scupture

Kinetic Sculpture: Bucephale

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This video shows a kinetic sculpture of a horse by the artist…
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Spherical Fourbar

Spherical Four-Bar Linkages

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Here is something new. Our Mathematica notebook can find…
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UCI Fall 2010 Soccerbots

UCI Fall 2010 Soccerbots

Entering UCI engineering students designed, built, and tested…
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Geometric Design of Linkages book

Geometric Design of Linkages, second edition

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I am pleased to say that the second edition of my book, Geometric…
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Four-bar Synthesis

Linkage Synthesis Demonstration

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This shows the operation of our Mathematica notebook for five-position…
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21st Century Kinematics

21st Century Kinematics

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This is a draft of my editorial on 21st Century Kinematics for…
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Schedule for 2011 Energy Invitational

2011 UCI Energy Invitational

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The 2011 UCI Energy Invitational will be at Willow Springs…
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Kinematics and Computers

Kinematics, Polynomials and Computers–A Brief History

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Select this link to the .pdf of Kinematics, Polynomials,…
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Peugeot 407 convertible

Peugeot 407 Convertible Hard Top

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  This is a video on Yahoo! that shows the movement of…
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Mathematica Notebook for Linkage Synthesis

Mathematica Notebook for Four-Bar Linkage Synthesis

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Select this link to download our Mathematica notebook for…
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Convertible Hardtop

Hardtop Convertible Linkage

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This SolidWorks animation of the drive linkage for a hardtop…
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Six-bar Retrieval Linkage for an ROV

Six-bar Retrieval Linkage for an ROV

This six-bar linkage was designed to extend from the body of…
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Dumping Linkage

Six-bar Trash Dumping Linkage

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This compact six-bar linkage is designed to lift and dump a trash…
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Shelf Deploy

Six-bar Shelf Linkage

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This six-bar linkage is designed to move a shelf from a position…
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Monitor Linkage

Monitor Six-bar Linkage

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This video shows our latest model for the six-bar linkage that…
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2010 FSAE California

2010 Formula SAE California

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The Formula SAE California collegiate race car engineering competition…
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Autonomous Table Soccer at UCI

Autonomous Table Soccer at UCI

The student project for UCI’s MAE 106 mechanical systems laboratory…
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Jensen Site

Theo Jansen’s site

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My link to a video of Theo Jansen's walking machines seems unreliable,…
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Technical information for mechanical components

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Stock Drive Products has an array of downloadable catalogs…
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2010 Energy Invitational

2010 UCI Energy Invitational Video

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The UCI Energy Invitational has competitors run on a course that…
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Mechanism Generator

SolidWorks Mechanism Generator

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Mechanism Generator is a SolidWorks add-in that assists in…
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Archway

Prototype spherical archway

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Smitty constructed this prototype of our spherical deployable…
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Drawer Deploy

Six-bar linkage prototypes

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Here are two videos of our first attempt to build prototypes…
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Automotive components

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Chris Longhurst has assembled a number of descriptive articles…
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Monitory Deploy

TV deployment linkage

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Mikhail Zhuk generated this animation of Jerome Choe's concept…
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Cam Driven Artist

Cam-driven artist mechanical toy

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This video shows the operation of a cam-driven toy artist. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT01OPRU57E I…
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Delft Models

Linkage models at TU-Delft

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Prof. A. J. Klein Breteler maintains an array of mechanism models…
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Parallel Mechanisms information center

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Ilian Bonev maintains bibliography and patent databases on parallel…
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Kinetic Horse

Kinetic horse sculpture

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This articulated model horse is by the artist James Watt. A…
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Deployable Arch

Deployable archway

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This animation of Jerome Choe's concept for a spherical archway…
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Shelter Deployment

Stackable fold-up emergency shelter

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Mikhail Zhuk animated this design concept for an eight-bar linkage…
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Elementary Robotics

Elementary Robotics

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The basic properties of robots can developed by studying planar…
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Intro to Mechanisms

CMU’s Introduction to Mechanisms

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Yi Zhang, Susan Finger and Stephannie Behrens have prepared an…
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Four-bar linkage analysis: Slider-crank

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The slider-crank is an important mechanism with a wide range…
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Four-bar linkage analysis

Four-bar linkage analysis: 4R quadrilateral

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The four-bar linkage is a basic machine component. It comes in…
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DC motor torque and power

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A copy of my notes on DC motor torque and power can be downloaded…
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DC motor basics

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The basic principles of DC motors are presented by Joe Wolfe…
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Mechanical Properties of Steel

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The MatWeb site provides detailed information about materials…
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Total Materia

Unified Numbering System for Materials

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There are a variety of numbering systems for materials such as…
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Koenigsegg Door

Koenigsegg door system

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The doors of the Koenigsegg CCX open using the "dihedral synchro-helix…
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Material Properties Charts

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Cambridge University provides a useful overview of materials…
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Jansen and Klann Legs

Comparison of Klann and Jansen leg linkages

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Joseph Klann provided a useful comparison of the leg designs…
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Mondo Spider

Mondo Spider walking machine

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This walking machine is known as the Mondo Spider. More information…
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Jansen Strandbeest

Theo Jansen’s walking machine

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Theo Jansen builds amazing walking machines. Each leg is an…
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Periodic Table

NIST Periodic Table

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides…
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Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing

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This is a link to notes on Geometric Design and Tolerancing by…
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Linkage for an RV deployable top

Linkage for an RV deployable top

This design concept is an 8-bar linkage developed by Minshan…
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Dishwasher linkage

Dishwasher linkage

This linkage to lift the lower rack in a dishwasher was developed…
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2009 Formula SAE CA

2009 Formula SAE California

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Here is a link to a facebook album showing the racecars and teams…
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Materials Selection in Mechanical Design

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Michael Ashby presents materials information in a practical format…
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Ten-bar Drive

10-bar drive linkage

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This 10-bar linkage is designed to drive a scissors movement…
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Timing Belt Theory

Timing belt theory

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ThomasNet provides a link to a useful white paper on Timing Belt…
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Gearing

Gear geometry

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Gear geometry data is available from PIC Design Inc. which is…
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Colorado Videos

Mechanisms videos at Colorado State

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Prof. David Alciatore has a large number of videos illustrating…
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Spherical Deployment

Spherical deployable linkage assembly

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This assembly of spherical rhombus linkages expands to enclose…
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Chris Sangwin

C. J. Sangwin’s linkage movies

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Chris Sangwin has a nice collection of linkage movies at How…
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Brock Engineering’s mechanism home page

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Fred Klingener has generated a number of interesting mechanism…
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Bennett Linkage

Linkage animations on synthetica

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This link connects to a web-page with a number of linkage animations.…
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KMODDL Tour

Kinematic models for design

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The KMODDL team at Cornell University maintains an excellent…
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Fasteners

Machine screw dimensions

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According to Shigley and Mischke's Mechanical Engineering Design…
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Spherical Car Door

Spherical eight-bar linkage for a car door

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This spherical eight-bar linkage was designed by GimSong Soh…
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Diesel Engine Animation

Diesel Engine Animations

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This are two animation of the operation of a diesel engine.  The…
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Engine Animation

Engine Animation

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This YouTube animation shows the animated assembly of a solid…
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