507 Mechanical Movements(507movements.com)

173 pointsby helloplanets2 hours ago23 comments

emacdonaan hour 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"
- scrollop8 minutes ago
  Ironically, before coming to the comments I was thinking this would be a good dataset for llms to learn real world mechanics.
- worldsayshian hour 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.
wowczarekan hour 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
twobitshifter9 minutes ago
Robert Murray Smith made made videos on mechanisms like these https://www.youtube.com/@ThinkingandTinkering/videos
WillAdamsan hour 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).
amelius3 minutes ago
Can these be generated automatically from a small set of primitives?
victorbjorklund6 minutes ago
Don’t most of these have ”names”? At least I would assume they have names so people know what they are talking about.
mklan hour 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.
- dang17 minutes 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)
- OJFord15 minutes ago
  Passim: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=507movements.com
jihadjihadan hour 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
- wowczarekan hour 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
- sys32768an hour ago
  Here you go: https://archive.org/details/the_incredible_machine_1992
- nsbk15 minutes 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
frnzan hour 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.
agrue15 minutes ago
Plugging a yt channel that posts lots of these sort of models:
https://youtube.com/@thang010146
akshay_akula34 minutes 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.
stoneman24an hour 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.
fifilura42 minutes ago
Also, Christopher Polhem was a Swedish inventor who created the "mechanical alphabet"
https://sketchfab.com/Tekniskamuseet/models
jjkaczoran hour ago
As a "wannabe" DIY engineer/maker and also in the 3d-printing hobby world, this is a wonderful resource...
pkilgore16 minutes ago
414 is just 1 with extra steps.
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mklyachmanan hour 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.
esmoryon5 minutes ago
Wow!
herodotusan hour ago
I would love to see good animations of a differential gear and a detente escapement.
stmw27 minutes ago
Ineed, it's a very good book. Someone should make an animated website version, though.
bilsbiean hour ago
This would be cool AI training data.
- colinhb39 minutes ago
  It is already in current training data. Both the book and website.
esmoryon15 minutes ago
Wow
mohamedkoubaaan hour ago
Now imagine if each of them got the ciechanow.ski treatment