After brainstorming ideas for things we could design with our combined mechanisms (rack and pinion and linkages) we started doing research on different types of linkages and came across this very cool video of a Watt's linkage:
We now have a really interesting concept for a chair that we want to design. I think we're actually going to end up cutting the Watt's linkage out of our chair for now (more drawings to follow) but we discovered the Mekanimo software from this video which is really cool. I also just got the Autodesk Inventor software last night, so I'm going to start playing with that and finally, Allen found a nifty plugin for SketchUp called sketchy physics which might come in handy too. So now we have options of how to figure out how everything is going to work with our gears and linkages!
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