fully automated mechanical spirograph (Super Meccanograph)

This famous model is based on the Super Meccanograph of Dr. ir. A. H. Boerdijk. More here http://meccanokinematics.net/meccano/... and below.

The original has been developed and built in the early 1960's. After 1990 the Super Meccanograph was more or less lost out of sight. By the mid of 2007, research done by Meccano Kinematics led to the tracking of this model.

In the latter part of 2007 a replica was built and in January 2008 a computermodel in VirtualMEC was generated, based on the replica.

All of this has resulted in the making of Modelplan 182.

At the beginning of 2014, 2 gearhead motors were substituted by steppermotors, worldwide available. As per 2022 (so long after uploading this vid), the stepperdrivers for the steppermotors have been substituted by TMC drivers 2208. The machine is now operating very silent and the video doesn't do justice regarding the noise level.

More work of Meccano kinematics can be found at http://meccanokinematics.net