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507 Mechanical Movements PDF: another great mechanism resource

Not too long ago I told you about three great mechanism references, one of which was the not-so-cheap Mechanical Devices Sourcebook. Well times are tough, and I’ve been reminded of the Sourcebook’s Grand-daddy: 507 Mechanical Movements. The link is a free PDF (507 has long since crawled out from under copyright protection) and there is no [...]

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three great mechanism references

Mechanisms are awesome, but they don’t seem to get much love in the search engine world. All told, these are the three best references I’ve seen that actually help in mechanism design. Flying Pigs Paper Animation has some nice flash of your standard mechanisms. Boston’s Museum of Science has a wall of mechanisms, so be [...]

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6 non-sucky materials sites

As product designers we deal with materials every day, but it’s a messy world out there and a surprising (or maybe not so surprising) number of materials websites suck. These ones don’t. I promise. MatWeb MatWeb is the big daddy when it comes to engineering materials.  Their enormous selection of generic (i.e. polycarbonate) and proprietary [...]

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