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John Fitzpatrick · 03-20-08, 09:59 PM

Sounds like it would make a good class project for Mech. Eng. students, if you teach. When I was a Junior (back in the day), we tried something like that for aircraft landing gear using an analog computer. Wasted enough graph paper to repopulate a forest and never did get it right. Don't mean to go off-topic, so PM me if you get it working- I'm curious how you go about optimizing with non-linear components and variables.
John

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John Fitzpatrick toy264 Moderator Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 264 Rep Power: 5	Re: Weber 48 IDA - Show me your linkages Sounds like it would make a good class project for Mech. Eng. students, if you teach. When I was a Junior (back in the day), we tried something like that for aircraft landing gear using an analog computer. Wasted enough graph paper to repopulate a forest and never did get it right. Don't mean to go off-topic, so PM me if you get it working- I'm curious how you go about optimizing with non-linear components and variables. John