Colin Sledge’s Aileron Linkage
Colin Sledge designed this linkage to guide an airfoil section around the main spar. By adjusting the amount of twist the entire wing acts as an aileron to control the aircraft.
Animations of linkage movement.
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.
Adam Shutt’s Automotive Spoiler Linkage
Adam Shutt designed this six-bar linkage to guide the movement of the rear spoiler for a high performance car.
Yang Liu’s Bookcase Linkages
Yang Liu designed a four-bar and a six-bar linkage to guide a stacked bookcase into and out of reach. This video shows the two designs.
Kassim’s Eight-bar Linkage
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.
Six-bar folding handle
Siqi Shi designed this six-bar linkage to guide a folding handle on a hair-dryer using MechGen 3.
Six-bar flower
Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals of this flower.
Six-bar butterfly
Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar linkage to guide the wings of a butterfly.
Another four-bar linkage flower
Mohamed Ali prepared this video of the four-bar linkage he designed with MechGen to guide the pedals of this flower.
A four-bar linkage 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.