One of my favourite sites! and an interesting example of that class of sites which are book made into sites with animations/interaction --- the another classic and notable example is:

https://mathcs.clarku.edu/~djoyce/java/elements/elements.htm...

Really wish that the folks doing the 507 Mechanical Movements would finish the balance of the animations.

Curious if folks are aware of other similar text/website combinations which are still extant (many others such as Bembo's Zoo are no longer available, and of course at one point in time, this sort of thing was the province of CD-ROMs such as Leonardo).

Many of these aren't animated... which gives me a great(?) idea for a new AI benchmark: "Animate the mechanical movement at this URL: ..."

Way more telling that "draw a pelican on a bicycle"

Well, there’s a book from my past. Got the book to see if I could find a clever way to get high speed, low displacement and high torque from small motors without huge gearing.

The side project was dropped as life got in the way, but I really enjoyed looking at all the different mechanisms.

As a "wannabe" DIY engineer/maker and also in the 3d-printing hobby world, this is a wonderful resource...

It makes me want to find a way to boot up The Incredible Machine [0], so many hours spent on TIM and TIM2 back in the day.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine

Honestly, I miss old-style internet sites like this. Nothing fancy, just good niched out information. No 300 MB loads for something that should be simple.

I would love to see good animations of a differential gear and a detente escapement.

Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10374436, 27 comments 11 years ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26373539, 30 comments 5 years ago.

Now imagine if each of them got the ciechanow.ski treatment

This would be cool AI training data.

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It's a great collection and exploring it is fun, but it misses on titles / names of the given linkage or movement. It makes sense when you are reading the book [0], but on a site like this where you see the individual item in isolation, a title or name would be helpful.

0: https://archive.org/details/fivehundredseven00browiala