Animations of Simple Mechanisms

For your first, hand-driven movement sculpture, focus on using simple mechanisms such as cams, bell cranks, and crank slider (i.e. the wire example I made in class)

Link to Animation of Cam in Motion
Link to Animation of Bell Crank in Motion
Link to Animation of Crank Slider in Motion

Crank

Crank Slider

Varying the shape of a cam changes the resulting motion. Here are some examples of cams:

I found one more great website with animations of mechanisms:
http://technologystudent.com/cams/camdex.htm

And one other site (for making mechanical toys). Focus on the movement and not the objects/toys:
http://www.mechanical-toys.com/mechanisums.htm