Author Archives: John McCullough

Find below an example of how to determine the position for your pneumatic cylinders in your projects. This is an example I have adapted from the book Mechanical Design for the Stage by Alan Hendrickson. If you are interested in machine … Continue reading →

City Tech’s Writing Across the Curriculum team is offering a note-taking workshop on Thursday, October 10th at 1:00pm in Namm 601A. You don’t need to RSVP, you can just drop in. If you attend this workshop, I will replace your … Continue reading →

As we discussed in class, if you would like to improve your grade on a quiz, you can. Here’s what you need to do: Once you get back a graded quiz, you have one week to review the material and … Continue reading →

Here is the site I showed you in class today: http://507movements.com/ I have the book this is based on, and I like to keep it by my desk and leaf through it when I’m working on a machine design. Some … Continue reading →

Tomorrow we start with pneumatic actuators and air power tomorrow. To be prepared to discuss pressures, actuator sizes, and required forces, we need to be comfortable with calculating the area of various shapes. For a quick geometry review, check out … Continue reading →

All – here is a link to the hydraulic arm kit for class. You don’t have to buy it from them directly, you can use Amazon or your retailer of choice, as long as you get the correct kit.  

Welcome to the Fall 2019 Monster Shop class. We have a lot of fun and challenging projects to work on this fall. This site is where you can find all of the relevant information for the course.