AUTOMATIC PAGE TURNER
Developed for the team’s mechanical engineer design class at San Jose State University, the automatic page turner was designed to assist those with disabilities to turn pages of a book at the press of a button.
FINAL ITERATION
CONCEPTS USED
The team used two main linkage types for the movement of this project: Hoeken’s Linkage (left) and Jansen’s Linkage (right). Jansen’s linkage was originally developed to mimic the walking movements of animals. The team decided on this linkage type for starting the page turn due to its end effector’s movement path and its dimensions were readily available to scale. Hoeken’s linkage was used to finish flipping the page after it has been lifted by Jansen’s linkage.
3D ASSEMBLY
The team used SOLIDWORKS to create a CAD of the two linkage subassemblies. The subassemblies were linked together with separate linkage. The team had originally planned for the project to be fully powered by a small brushless electric motor but due to time constraints the team scaled down the scope of the project to only the linkage mechanisms. The two subsystems were not connected in the final iteration and small handles were added to crank manually for demonstration purposes.
The final product was 3D printed using PLA plastic and assembled with torx screws.