Brendan Smith’s Monitor Linkage
Brendan Smith designed this six-bar linkage to guide a big-screen TV from a horizontal position hidden in the ceiling into a vertical position for convenient viewing.
Shape-morphing linkages
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.
The d.School and Design Thinking
In this Freudenstein Memorial Lecture, Bernard Roth presents an overview of the work at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford, known as the d.School. Pierre Larochelle, one of my former students, has a cameo at the beginning.
MillenWorks to show LUV at 2011 Energy Invitational
MillenWorks Light Utility Vehicle
MillenWorks will show their LUV (Light Utility Vehicle) at the the 2011 Energy Invitational at Willow Springs Motorsports Park on March 30, 2011. It has a unique all wheel drive parallel hybrid powertrain for reduced fuel consumption and silent watch capability with extensive on-board power.
Toyota to show two vehicles at 2011 Energy Invitational
Toyota 2010 Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle
Toyota will demonstrate their Advanced Fuel Cell Hybrid Vehicle at the Energy Invitational at Willow Springs on March 30, 2011.
They will also demonstrate their Prius Plug-in Hybrid.
Prius Plug-in Hybrid
Kinetic Sculpture: Bucephale
This video shows a kinetic sculpture of a horse by the artist Francois Hameury.
His website is http://hameury.sculptures.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm
Peugeot 407 Convertible Hard Top
This is a video on Yahoo! that shows the movement of the Convertible Hard Top of the Peugeot 407. The two side rails fold out from the back, and provide guides for the glass panels that move out to become the top.
Theo Jansen’s site
My link to a video of Theo Jansen’s walking machines seems unreliable, so it is best to go directly to the source: Theo Jansens Strandbeest site
You can access his videos on the page: film
For example, this video is available:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/952254?pg=embed&sec=952254[/vimeo]
SolidWorks Mechanism Generator
Mechanism Generator is a SolidWorks add-in that assists in generating solid models of four-bar and six-bar linkages. It designed to be used in coordination with our Mathematica design software, which is freely available.
Prototype spherical archway
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.