507 Mechanical Movements

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hhelloplanets about 3 hours ago 35 commentsRead Article on 507movements.com

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Book (1868): https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala

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wowczarek•about 2 hours ago

It's a great collection and exploring it is fun, but it misses on titles / names of the given linkage or movement. It makes sense when you are reading the book [0], but on a site like this where you see the individual item in isolation, a title or name would be helpful.

0: https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala

emacdona•about 2 hours ago

Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..."

Way more telling that "draw a pelican on a bicycle"

scrollop•about 1 hour ago

Ironically, before coming to the comments I was thinking this would be a good dataset for llms to learn real world mechanics.

MisterTea•39 minutes ago

For me it's a great dataset to train my own brain. This way when I'm in the field and need to come up with a fix for something I can query my intellect and come up with a solution. No accounts, internet connection, or compute needed!

worldsayshi•about 2 hours ago

Also, set up formulas for calculating speed, torque, forces etc, of each system.

Then create a modular simulation library and point and click simulator where all the component variants are covered so that the user can piece new systems together using those components.

bonestamp2•about 1 hour ago

Also include sliders so parameters can be adjusted to see how it affects the mechanism (ex. wheel radius).

kazinator•3 minutes ago

[delayed]

WillAdams•about 2 hours ago

One of my favourite sites! and an interesting example of that class of sites which are book made into sites with animations/interaction --- the another classic and notable example is:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

Really wish that the folks doing the 507 Mechanical Movements would finish the balance of the animations.

Curious if folks are aware of other similar text/website combinations which are still extant (many others such as Bembo's Zoo are no longer available, and of course at one point in time, this sort of thing was the province of CD-ROMs such as Leonardo).

mkl•about 2 hours ago

Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374436, 27 comments 11 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373539, 30 comments 5 years ago.

dang•about 1 hour ago

Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Five hundred and seven Mechanical Movements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41579354 - Sept 2024 (5 comments)

507 Mechanical Movements (1868) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373539 - March 2021 (30 comments)

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19968114 - May 2019 (147 comments)

507 Mechanical Movements (1868) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374436 - Oct 2015 (27 comments)

Mechanical Movements, Animated - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8019787 - July 2014 (1 comment)

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6230363 - Aug 2013 (66 comments)

Five Hundred and Seven Mechanical Movements (1868) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5660770 - May 2013 (25 comments)

OJFord•about 1 hour ago

Passim: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=507movements.com

rkagerer•25 minutes ago

This is great, but repetitive. A lot of them are minor variances on a previous example. Is there a shorter list that distills it down to novel examples of the major concepts?

agrue•about 1 hour ago

Plugging a yt channel that posts lots of these sort of models:

https://youtube.com/@thang010146

jihadjihad•about 2 hours ago

It makes me want to find a way to boot up The Incredible Machine [0], so many hours spent on TIM and TIM2 back in the day.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

sys32768•about 2 hours ago

Here you go: https://archive.org/details/the_incredible_machine_1992

wowczarek•about 2 hours ago

Good times. Ever played Sid & Al's Incredible Toons [0]? Same same concept, from the same people (Sierra / Dynamix), but with a slightly different take and an emphasis on silliness / humour. A sound card was a must though.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_&_Al's_Incredible_Toons

nsbk•about 1 hour ago

This so much! What great games, probably my favorites over the early FPSs of the time, but in close contention with Day of the Tentacle and Monkey Island

twobitshifter•about 1 hour ago

Robert Murray Smith made many videos on mechanisms like these https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkingandTinkering/videos

frnz•about 2 hours ago

The first two examples I looked at (https://507movements.com/mm_016.html and https://507movements.com/mm_015.html) have the ropes partially going in the wrong direction.

warpech•15 minutes ago

I was expecting a new HTTP status code

victorbjorklund•about 1 hour ago

Don’t most of these have ”names”? At least I would assume they have names so people know what they are talking about.

stoneman24•about 2 hours ago

Well, there’s a book from my past. Got the book to see if I could find a clever way to get high speed, low displacement and high torque from small motors without huge gearing.

The side project was dropped as life got in the way, but I really enjoyed looking at all the different mechanisms.

akshay_akula•about 1 hour ago

This site is a treasure for anyone who has ever tried to get useful motion out of a small motor. The wish for them to finish the remaining animations is very real.

mklyachman•about 2 hours ago

Honestly, I miss old-style internet sites like this. Nothing fancy, just good niched out information. No 300 MB loads for something that should be simple.

ThatOneSong•22 minutes ago

It reminds me of a YouTube channel where I found the best song ever made.

Does anyone know

fifilura•about 2 hours ago

Also, Christopher Polhem was a Swedish inventor who created the "mechanical alphabet"

https://sketchfab.com/Tekniskamuseet/models

jjkaczor•about 2 hours ago

As a "wannabe" DIY engineer/maker and also in the 3d-printing hobby world, this is a wonderful resource...

amelius•about 1 hour ago

Can these be generated automatically from a small set of primitives?

herodotus•about 2 hours ago

I would love to see good animations of a differential gear and a detente escapement.

pkilgore•about 1 hour ago

414 is just 1 with extra steps.

stmw•about 1 hour ago

Ineed, it's a very good book. Someone should make an animated website version, though.

khazhoux•24 minutes ago

I found this which might interest you:

https://507movements.com/

esmoryon•about 1 hour ago

Wow

bilsbie•about 2 hours ago

This would be cool AI training data.

colinhb•about 2 hours ago

It is already in current training data. Both the book and website.

mohamedkoubaa•about 2 hours ago

Now imagine if each of them got the ciechanow.ski treatment