[TheForge] Re: Cool kinematic web site

[Jerry Frost]

I agree Mike, the site is over gizmoed and under featured for sure. It 
doesn't sound like I'm having as much trouble as you are but I have a DSL 
connection now. I sure don't like how I have to reopen the directory tree to 
get to the next model. With a proper format I should be able to simply click 
around the directory tree without the fuss.

Computer majors! <sigh>

I'd rather have the book(s) myself, especially seeing as the site doesn't 
seem to have animated models. Of course I may not have found them, it's not 
like I spent a lot of time searching once I found the cool models. <grin>

Luddite? YOU!?!

HA!

Frosty
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>
To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 9:35 PM
Subject: [TheForge] Re: Cool kinematic web site


>
> Frosty quoth:
>
>> http://kmoddl.library.cornell.edu/index.php
>> ...
>> I just can't wait to see what Mike S. will come up with. <grin>
>
> Lots of beautiful stuff.  I hate the interface that tries to do all
> kinds of complicated and cutesy stuff with Javascript and Flash.  And
> I get long stalls when fetching pages.  I don't know if I have the
> patience.  I can look at any page in my nice little book anytime I
> want without having to upgrade, reconfigure or tweak *anything at
> all*. (See sig :-)
>
> Something I saw in a book once that is neither in my (present) book
> nor (apparently?) on that site:
>
>  Imagine two solid cylinders (say, 4" dia), each with an axial shaft
>  projecting from one end.  Shafts are in some kind of bearings.
>  Orient at right angles, fairly close together, axes in the same
>  plane, shafts away from the intersection of the axial lines.  Each
>  cylinder has (say) 4 holes (say, 1/4" dia) parallel to the axis and
>  at 12, 3, 6 and 9 o'clock.
>
>  Now take four pieces of (slightly less than) 1/4" rod.  Bend each to
>  a right angle, sort of like an allen wrench with equal legs.  Oil
>  the rods and insert them in the holes so that they go around the
>  "corner" from one cylinder to the other.
>
>  As one cylinder is rotated, the rods slide in and out of the holes
>  and one cylinder drives the other around a right angle.
>
>  Gee, I wish I hadn't lost the book I saw that in.
>
> -- 
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