Kassim Abdul-Sater designed this eight-bar linkage to guide a lamp between folded and deployed configurations. Kassim works at the Institute of Micro Technology and Medical Device Technology (MiMed), Technische Universität München (TUM) in Germany.
Siqi Shi designed this six-bar linkage to guide a folding handle on a hair-dryer using MechGen 3.
Please save the date of Friday, December 7, 2012 to join us at the 2012 UCI Fall Design Review and Alumni BBQ. This year includes the hovercraft competition in which hovercrafts designed and constructed our freshman project class will race to determine the best performing system.
2012 Fall Design Review
This flyer has been updated to include the location, which is the Engineering Gateway Plaza and the involvement of the Material Science Engineering majors as well.
Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals of this flower.
Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar linkage to guide the wings of a butterfly.
Mohamed Ali prepared this video of the four-bar linkage he designed with MechGen to guide the pedals of this flower.
Cameron Turner prepared this video of his four-bar linkage flower. At the end he shows the four-bar linkage that drives the pedals.
This is the first assignment in my graduate mechanism synthesis class. It is supposed to be a flower with petals that open and close guided by a four-bar linkage. I did not realize that the shape I gave them for the petals would look so scary, but maybe it is appropriate for Halloween. This design was developed by Hsuan-Chen Wan.
This is an example of a shape-morphing linkage resulting from the research collaboration James Schmiedeler and Andrew Murray. This is an old design dating to when James was a Professor at Ohio State University. He is now at Notre Dame. Andrew Murray is a Professor at the University of Dayton.
This four-bar linkage was designed by Kaustubh Sonawale using MechGen to deploy the spare tire of a pickup truck.