My 10 Favorite Mechanical Animations from Wikipedia

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By Sean Michael Ragan
Posted 2010/06/14 @ 7:56 am
Category Robotics, Computers & Mobile, Science

#10

Klann linkage

#9

Peristaltic pump

#8

Sun and planet gear

#7

Sterling engine

#6

Wankel engine

#5

Trammel of Archimedes

#4

Geneva wheel

#3

Universal joint

#2

Constant-velocity joint

#1

Sarrus linkage

BY Sean Michael Ragan

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6 Responses to My 10 Favorite Mechanical Animations from Wikipedia

Ushanka on June 14th, 2010 at 9:30 pm said:

My god, these are so captivating. I could watch that trammel of Archimedes all day.

It’s not technically a mechanical animation, but my favorite Wikipedia animation is this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Viscosity.gif

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Chennai Laptops on April 24th, 2012 at 5:15 am said:

Awesome works. i like the mechanism of Constant-velocity joint

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Crazywolf on July 2nd, 2012 at 5:32 pm said:

The first one wouldn’t work because it is picking up two legs at a time. Which means it would just fall over. It would have to have at least six legs.

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- NancyG. on July 10th, 2012 at 8:43 pm said:
  
  I assume it has the same number and configuration of legs on both sides… much like a spider.
  
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Nathan on August 2nd, 2012 at 11:27 am said:

my favorite is the unrolling of pi
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2a/Pi-unrolled-720.gif/200px-Pi-unrolled-720.gif

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Bruce Miller on March 30th, 2013 at 12:05 pm said:

Good Stuff! More to come?

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