Murray's Home Page | Email me Sites to check out while you're taking Mechanical Reasoning or Theory of Machines: Relevant mechanism, machinery and robotics pictures and animations: The Kinematics Models for Design Digital Library A picture and an animation of the Steam Locomotive Walschaert Valve Gear Diagram Examples of Cam and Follower Systems in Use Motoman's Robobar movie at the Motoman robotics site John Deere Caterpillar Machines Fun with mechanisms: Build and launch your own trebuchet at The Treb Challenge The game Planarity Turn your sound up for the Blue Ball machine Launch a rocket when you run The Brain Strainer The Honda Ad John Grindall's Linkages The Soda Constructor at Soda Play Escapa! Mechanism Art: The artwork of Arthur Ganson Cabaret Mechanical Theatre Strandbeest, The artwork of Theo Jansen (follow the "film" link) Amorphic Robot Works Roy Pardi's simple machines/engines of desire project Software dedicated to planar kinematic synthesis of mechanisms: The SyMech linkage synthesis tool The WATT synthesis software by Heron Technologies The Lincages software synthesis tool My own SDAMP software Toys: Wheelsurf CoasterDynamix Others worth the time: BigDog by BostonDynamics