Thread: Interesting rule calls from the Detroit District
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Re: Interesting rule calls from the Detroit District
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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
Add four more bars and turn it into a Peaucellier-Lipkin straight-line linkage.
The problem is that with 469's 4-bar, the two fixed pivots are parallel to the link with the minibot on it. With the Peacellier-Lipkin linkage, the two fixed pivots are perpendicular to the axis of motion (and the minibot would not always be parallel to the ground).