507 Mechanical Movements - An Epic Community Challenge

[dnbattley]

Avid engineers within the community may already be aware of the famous 19th Century opus that is 507 Mechanical Movements by Henry T. Brown; others in the community may not yet have seen this resource, nor become aware of its potential value in designing their own creations.

The goal of this community challenge is to build up examples of all of these movements, making videos and other resources available to the community at large, using KSP as the medium. As a community project we should be able to create some - perhaps even all - of these movements - though some (such as pulleys etc.) may require a certain amount of... ingenuity.

 

Some ground rules:

1. The movement should translate a force from a powered device to an unpowered device: e.g. a motor through to an unpowered motor. That the output is powered solely by the mechanical movement and not directly is a given, and this should be made obvious in any submission.

2. We are aiming to use stock parts only for this challenge: visual mods etc. are fine. Obviously DLC is permitted, though not obligatory.

3. Electricity hacks are permitted (though use of clamps should generally negate any need for this). Other hacks, such as reducing gravity, may be used if absolutely necessary, but are discouraged.

4. For compatibility, I suggest 1.7.1 be the minimum version used (this is, I believe, when self-interaction was added), and generally the newest version available should be preferred.

5. Videos are preferred, but not essential.

6. Craft files should be made available if possible.

 

The best examples of movements will be put here:

1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39	40
41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49	50	51	52	53	54	55	56	57	58	59	60
61	62	63	64	65	66	67	68	69	70	71	72	73	74	75	76	77	78	79	80
81	82	83	84	85	86	87	88	89	90	91	92	93	94	95	96	97	98	99	100
101	102	103	104	105	106	107	108	109	110	111	112	113	114	115	116	117	118	119	120
121
141
161
181
201
221
241
261
281
301
321
341
361
381
401
421
441
461
481
501	501	503	504	505	506	507

 

As an example, here is my take on movement #27

 

Edited November 15, 2019 by dnbattley
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[doggonemess]

I'm very interested to see what people come up with! I can definitely see some of these machines taking a lot of work to make.

On a side note, I predict that I'm not going to get anything useful done today.