Four Bar Linkage

You can drag the vertices of the shadow linkage to alter its geometry. Can you create a linkage which draws a figure 8?  How about the letter D?  How close to a straight line can you get? If you like this, you might like my 4 bar linkage clock app.

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watts up

Watt's linkage is used to generate approximate straight line motion in automobile suspensions. Aee how it works. (Yes I'm using an alpha copy of GX version 3.2)

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Crazy Clock

I remember seeing a 4 bar linkage clock on the wall of a mechanical engineering professor. Here is my take on that.  (Green points can be dragged)

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Crank Slider

Here is a crank-slider linkage in the form used by the Hrones Nelson Atlas of linkages

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