Simple actuator design test

by | Feb 26, 2015 | Design, Engineering, Other sims, Videos

Autodesk inventor is a pain for animating stuff like this but I’m never one to shy from a challenge 🙂 A large elasticated band supports the weight of the user, and platform, and the linear actuator lifts and lowers them. Fast, responsive and most importantly :...

Animated Chain

by | Nov 27, 2014 | Videos

In order to make a really compelling demonstration video we need to show the chains moving the sphere but despite watching several videos this has eluded me. So I sat down, broke it down to just what I need to figure out and made this: So near!! It messes up about...

Omnichain render

by | Nov 21, 2014 | Videos

So it’s reasonably simple to animate an object following a path, but then patterning that object so there are several hundred all moving along the same path feels a little trickier :p   I followed this tutorial :...

New base

by | Aug 24, 2014 | Design, Pictures, Videos

I did mention using one double long chain for one rotation axis but I think a lot can be said for just using the same length for both. This reduces part numbers since we can just use the same bits. Standard configuration would come as a 4 part X as shown below but...