Re: degrees of freedom Was: Angle Iron Ways

I realize now you probably answered your own questions on the meaning
of kinematic in that context and just got excited about parallel
kinematics. This is understandable as it is VERY cool. There is a
pdf on the page of my site listed that shows how you can do it
yourself with mach3.

Oh and prepare to loose a few more hours after watching some of these:

http://www.qcomptech.com/flexsys/flex_videos.html

The croissants one is very cool

That is a example of a delta robot, its basically a three axis
parallel machine with three rotational actuators, parallel linkages to
keep the working tool vertical and I think in this case an extra
rotation axis for croissant alignment.

Graham