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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