MEchaniCAL Mayhem

I'm an aspiring Mech-E over at the Olin College of Engineering. I'm using this as a blog for projects and as a source for inspiration and news on all things related to mechanical engineering.

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Just some more monowheel stuff:

http://fab.cba.mit.edu/classes/4.140/people/kristopher.santos/week4.html

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/TRANSPORT/motorwhl/motorwhl.htm#gara

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An intern that I worked with last summer at BDI, worked on a bunch of awesome vehicles over at Chalmers for this parade they have every year.  This was one of them, looks like so much fun!

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdSLRD_2vzc

The HPV team at my school is looking to make something along these lines for next year!

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http://i.imgur.com/VT33XXi.gif

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Torchmate CNC

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Huge Pressure Vessel Fabrication

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http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/13165.htm

Festo's BionicOpter Now with an animation showing some of the mechanisms in the dragonfly.

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https://decibel.ni.com/content/blogs/MechRobotics

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http://hacknmod.com/hack/incredible-robot-balances-perfectly-on-a-ball/

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relay#Pole_and_throw

Trying to understand EE things...

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Awesome Teenage Engineer!!

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Spray Can robot

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"It’s called a polargraph because it uses a dual-polar coordinates system internally, rather than the regular cartesian system we (and computer systems) tend to use."

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Swash Plate!

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6 degrees of freedom using stewart platforms!

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?pid=S1678-58782012000200011&script=sci_arttext

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Example of a Stewart Platform!

This particular one was built by students in Norway.