That's some cool software, I might try it out myself. I was also actually of thinking writing some Technic blog tutorials here since it'd be useful, and I love Technic building =)
I played around with Blender recently to explain how to achieve varying speed (but mostly for fun). The physics engine didn't work at all for it (not that I really thought it would). Even with keyframe animation it was difficult to get the result I wanted. Fortunately there is good scripting support. In the end, this is what I managed to produce: [1] (How to embed image?)
That image is tiny, to keep file size small. Animating a full module is probably best done in a video, but to make a good educational animation it's best to remove all extraneous things and only keep the essential parts.
»I played around with Blender recently to explain how to achieve varying speed (but mostly for fun). The physics engine didn't work at all for it (not that I really thought it would). Even with keyframe animation it was difficult to get the result I wanted. Fortunately there is good scripting support. In the end, this is what I managed to produce: [1] (How to embed image?)
That image is tiny, to keep file size small. Animating a full module is probably best done in a video, but to make a good educational animation it's best to remove all extraneous things and only keep the essential parts.«
To embed an image, upload it and then embed it using [[File:FILENAMEHERE.gif]]. Further options are documented here. Feel free to play around with wiki syntax in the sandbox.