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Prof. McCarthy2016-07-31 11:11:472017-04-14 13:51:30Trifolium using contra-parallelogramsLinkage Design Concepts
Jessica Koa designed the flower with petals actuated by six-bar linages.
Link Yun’s flower with six-bar linkages moving the petals.
Benjamin Liu’s Terrarium uses six-bar linkages to open the glass sides.
DJ Fuller’s Jack-o’Lantern uses six-bar linkages to open the segments.
Jessica Kao developed this sofa bed that opens using a six-bar linkage.
Ling Yun used our sofa beg linkage to display a gift.
Design Innovation
Student designs of six-bar linkages
Andrew Brouwer’s six-bar linkage to guide the petals.
Kamil Samaan designed this six-bar linkage.
Bojun Lin’s six-bar linkage guiding the pedals of a flower.
Colin Sledge’s six-bar flower.
Frank Liu’s six-bar flower.
Cameron Turner’s six-bar linkage flower.
Adam Shutt designed this six-bar to guide the opening of the petals of a flower.
Mohamed Ali designed this six-bar to guide the wings of this butterfly.
Tim Rasmussen designed this six-bar linkage to guide the petals of this flower.
Hsuan-chen Wan used MechGen 3 to design a six-bar linkage to guide the petals of the flower.
Student designs of four-bar linkages
Hsuan-chen Wan’s animation of a four-bar linkage that moves the petals of a flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvSmz3hYk-o[/youtube]
Cameron Turner’s design of a flower that moves with a four-bar linkage.[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV0hQQn0OfI[/youtube]
Mohamed Ali’s four-bar linkage for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoCPh53_f9M[/youtube]
Scott Bougie’s animation of his flower design.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_1v7PjDWjg[/youtube]
Frank Liu’s four-bar linkage design for the petal movement.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsFgoPgpmXA[/youtube]
Yang Liu’s four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWGrp2tvf0Q[/youtube]
Kamal Samaan’s design of the four-bar linkage driven flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eO6JTY9HpLs[/youtube]
The flower designed by Colin Sledge.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFudL7fBUBU[/youtube]
This is Andrew Brouwer’s design for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s81Lrjsli_Y[/youtube]
Adan Amarillas designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6ZBBVFFivQ[/youtube]
Brandon Creager animated a spiral opening for the flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oar2wuqLxyA[/youtube]
Adam Shutts designed this linkage to open the petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5phQxLbKrU[/youtube]
Bojun Lin designed this flower linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bi90cgQaU8[/youtube]
Kelly Lin designed this linkage.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cm3P_dn3Zys[/youtube]
Tim Rasmussen designed the linkage to open and close the flower petals.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNMiDrbZGrU[/youtube]
This is the four-bar linkage designed by Ryan Kuehne.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jWBDXI81t4[/youtube]
Siqi Shi designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qvh9onP7cI[/youtube]
Tianming Cheng designed this four-bar linkage flower.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcnwIhc5-rU[/youtube]
Brendan Smith uses the movement of the petal linkage for a different application.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAHqWz4cNk[/youtube]