Electromechanical Design: Mechanism Design
A collection of motion synthesis problems culminating in the design of a novel trashcan mechanism.
Top Loading Trashcan Design
Other than the motion path, the assignment constrained the pivots to the trashcan body, requiring the linkages to avoid intersection.
To ensure the mechanism does not lock up required pictured equivalence.
By using relationships instead of dimension in SolidWorks, I was able to solve for an entire set of solutions, allowing for quicker iterations.
Container Door Mechanism
A similar approach to the trashcan was employed.
Motion Synthesis Basics
Each of these mechanisms meet their requirements while illustrating very different behaviour in their full travel.
