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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 →

The machine I picked was The Dallas Stars’ lighting star. The lighting star is used for the entrance of the Dallas Stars, a hockey team in Dallas, Texas. It’s a huge star that is placed over the entrance of where … Continue reading →

Typically at the beginning of a roller coaster track there is a closed pulley system. Similar to a bike chain the system continuously runs through the pulleys on each end.  There is one pulley at both the top and bottom … Continue reading →

C Clamp C- clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal work tool, and often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding. Often believed that these clamps are called “C” clamps because of their C-shaped … Continue reading →

The Crane works by bringing heavy material to a designated area.It works by 3 simple machines.Those 3 simple machines are a lever, pulley and a wheel and axle but just in bigger pieces. The 2 that are going to be … Continue reading →

Roosevelt Rozon The first machine that came to mind was the “Boneshakers” automaton. Automaton is a mechanical device that is made to imitate the movements of a human being. It uses a series of simple machines in order to follow … Continue reading →