In the second project of my mechanical prototyping class, our assignment was to construct an automata that used a hand crank as an input and created some sort of interesting motion with it. Some ways to do this included gears, cams, and linkages. Personally, I was fairly intrigued by linkages, so I wanted to create an automata that used them in some way. I settled on an automata that features two dolphins jumping over waves, with the internal linkages visible on one side.
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