Juggling Clown

Introduction

The goal of this robot was to move a steel ball bearing from one location to another in a creative and mechanically interesting way. In doing this, we created kinetic art. We chose the theme of a juggling clown. This meant we had to come up with a motion that began upward to mimic a juggler throwing the ball. The next is a large arch motion representing the ball in the air. The juggler catching the ball was modeled by a downward motion. The kinetically interesting part of this was syncing all these motions to one degree of freedom. To do this we modeled links using the software found at the link below.

Planar Mechanism Kinematic Simulator

Device Video

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Team

Aaron Rodriguez

Siddharth Desai