Raccoon Tycoon is a board game usually played with between 2 and 4 players. The Fat Cat expansion provides all of the materials needed to play with 6 players. I this post, I’m going to talk about the game’s randomness and how it is overcome, not by providing…
Continue readingChebyshev Straight Line* Hoeken Straight Line* Linear Motion Track Planetary Gears Peaucellier Straight Line Roberts Straight Line* Scotch Yoke Scott Russell Straight Line Watt Straight Line* *This is a straight line approximation This page will be updated with new components. A link to this page will be made…
Continue readingWhile wandering around the web looking for interesting mechanisms, I stumbled upon, for the gazillionth time, Geneva mechanisms. Even though I had looked at Geneva mechanisms more times than I can count, this time I discovered something interesting; A Geneva mechanism can be built without the anti-slip disk….
Continue readingIn a post yesterday, I wrote about how I wanted to have gears and links rotate freely on rotating inputs when a specific set of options are selected. I am at the point now where I think I know what to do. here is how it will work…
Continue readingI updated the Linkage beta software: https://www.rectorsquid.com/beta/linkage.msi Here are some of the recent changes and additions: Allow gears to be separated using the Split command Show RPM along with gear radius or diameter when auto-dimensions are on. Added push/pull options to the actuator settings so users don’t need…
Continue readingThe Linkage program was meant to be simple to use; If you add a rotating input connector, it will rotate any links or gears it is a part of. To create a crank, just drop in a link with two connectors and change one of them to be…
Continue readingI threw together this bridge after seeing some others on YouTube. I started with actuators in place of winches and cables and then moved to an actuator that would be a hydraulic cylinder or rack-and-pinion if built in real life. I’ll try to update this post with the…
Continue readingThe rolling bridge in Paddington London is a prime mechanism to reverse engineer and create with the Linkage software. This is a simple repeating mechanism that uses the vertically-oriented hydraulics to decrease the distance between the top portions of the individual trapezoids. The distance decreases as the center…
Continue readingThis is a continuation of my story started in this earlier post here. At the end of my last post, I wrote about getting a job working for TimeLogic on a broadcast delay system. I Actually interviewed for that job and had to write some software as a…
Continue readingI think I should write down some of this stuff before I forget it all. Others might find it interesting. If anything, the amount of good luck that has befallen me is impressive. I worked in a toy store when I was 19. When the store was unable…
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