Algodoo

Hi Mister Linkage.... Ooops.... I mean Mister s_noonan,

This certainly is an interesting mechanism. While playing with it I noticed two unusual things: 1. The lower-most blue horizontal bar is BEHIND the yellow vertical support, and all other components are in FRONT of the yellow support. Obviously, that cannot work in a real-life mechanism. 2. Each time I stopped the mechanism at its lowest point (I'll call it six O'Clock) the mechanism jams when trying to start it moving again in either direction. Except for those two things, it works well.

Thanks for the comment. I realized both of those things. The first item I let go because I thought it looked interesting. The second one I let go because that's the type of behavior you get with a 4-bar linkage if all the links line up. It's called a mechanical singularity. I considered putting motors at some other joints to make the motion more predictable, but decided not to because it would give the false impression that it never gets stuck.

I wish algobox would split in 2 parts the one is for the machines, phun, thyme scripting, and other tpe of these scenes of the side one and the two would be for object shows, algo whatever thlons, marble races, and other type of these scenes on the side two

btw cool