Animated Mechanisms Online

erco

Wonderful site! http://www.mekanizmalar.com/index.html

Lots of animated mechanisms. Some are just videos, but many are interactive. You can vary the lengths of various links and watch the new path traced. These are some of the interactive ones:

http://www.mekanizmalar.com/fourbar01.html

http://www.mekanizmalar.com/mechanicalspider.html KLANN linkage

http://www.mekanizmalar.com/hoekens_linkage.html

http://www.mekanizmalar.com/theo_jansen.html GO THEO or go home!

http://www.mekanizmalar.com/alternating_reciprocal_motion_simulation.html slider between gears changes ratio

erco

The Zurich mechanism... not Geneva. A gearless 2:1 slider crank style mechanism. Not constant velocity though, it almost has a quick return stroke zone, plus a dead zone. Yet another solution in search of a problem.