Description

A trammel of Archimedes is a mechanism that generates the shape of an ellipse. It consists of two shuttles that are confined ("trammeled") to perpendicular channels or rails and a rod that is attached to the shuttles by pivots at fixed positions along the rod.

In my version of the trammel I added several notches on the handle for the second shuttle so that the path can take on elliptical paths of different sizes. I also added a hole for a pencil at the end of the handle so that a user can draw out the elliptical path.

About

This project was part of ME 102 - Foundations of Product Realization at Stanford, which i took my sophomore fall.

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