Monday, April 20, 2015
Understand 1,700 Mechanical Linkages with these Helpful Animations
Make: | Make:: Mr. Đức thắng Nguyễn (Duc Thang Nguyen) is an engineer from Vietnam. Since his retirement in 2002, he has being working on an amazing animated 3D catalog of mechanical contraptions.
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The ingenuity of the design that goes into these different mechanical linkages and being able to see how the different parts are broken down is education to the mind. To come up with 1700 of them, requires patience and the ability to understand what it is you want it to do. I could figure out how some of the examples could be used in the real world. What is appreciative of him, is that he has made videos of how these systems work, as well as being able to download a pdf so that you can recreate, or build something similar to it. It would definitely be interesting to go about using these in the world of theatre. I understand how they can be used in motors and various other systems, but then you start using them as part of a stage, you’ve stepped up into a whole new ball game.
Wow, That Persian joint is awesome. I had no idea that there were more ways to do a universal coupler joint. I wonder if it works in any orientation, up to a certain angle, or if it only works in the displayed view. My intuition says that it should work in any orientation up to a certain point until the center pivoting members run into each other. Because as you increase the angle incident between the incoming axle and the outgoing axle, the center parallel members look like they would get closer together, and would be at their farthest from each other when the input and output are co-axial. That would mean that there is a maximum angle that the two axles can be from each other, which begs the question, can you make the spacing between the center parallel members larger by making the transfer arms longer, I want to say yes that it possible.
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