An amazing achievement in mechanical design, which I think will ripple out into every engineering design system or discipline and result in revolutionary improvements in mechanisms and structures in the near future.
For example, with a single rigid shaft, and a lot of loops of thread, and a drive from an electric motor that is connected to the loop(s) and not directly to the other shaft, you could create an axle that could spin continuously clockwise, and in any orientation about a sphere. The threads would wear though and it would destroy itself. But it's an interesting thought experiment. Geometrically at least.
I go to the gym so I can show all the girlies my flex. I have all the degrees of movement and I'm not over constrained where it counts. This is some thick material, gotta bring the comment section down to a fourth grade level.
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An amazing achievement in mechanical design, which I think will ripple out into every engineering design system or discipline and result in revolutionary improvements in mechanisms and structures in the near future.
This is an extremely powerful design framework. The benefits are endless but help a designer find optimal DOF, and create compliant mechanisms.
I’ve also been searching for this. Thank you pandemic for giving this man the motivation to make these videos!
Extremely interesting and in depth explainer. I'd recommend to anyone interested in compliant designs.
What a masterful presentation. I am blown away by the cohesion between everything in there.
This is exactly what I've been searching for
This is gold. Period.
thanks, great job
Imagine if the solver incorporated the geometry of knots. You could have really strange tensile structures with no rigid parts.
Anchor points, spinors = strange mechanical systems.
For example, with a single rigid shaft, and a lot of loops of thread, and a drive from an electric motor that is connected to the loop(s) and not directly to the other shaft, you could create an axle that could spin continuously clockwise, and in any orientation about a sphere. The threads would wear though and it would destroy itself. But it's an interesting thought experiment. Geometrically at least.
@@daltanionwaves Hi, I found your idea really interesting but couldn't understand much. Can you explain in some detail?
impressive
I go to the gym so I can show all the girlies my flex. I have all the degrees of movement and I'm not over constrained where it counts. This is some thick material, gotta bring the comment section down to a fourth grade level.