Doing Da Vinci

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Alan Federman built our Da Vinci Reciprocating Gear project in MAKE Volume 24 (video above). He has a number of other cool working Da Vinci models, built in wood, on his YouTube channel. You can learn a lot about the basic mechanics of gears, cranks, screws, and other simple machines by looking at these devices in action. Below are his screw cutting machine, followed by his file forging machine (it hammer-forges grooves in metal to create a file).

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4 thoughts on “Doing Da Vinci

  1. Andrew Foster says:

    The first video claims, in the video itself, that it is making a sawtooth wave. In a correction, it claims the wave is square. Neither is correct, it is a triangle wave. An interesting mechanism, though.

  2. Filippo Menconi says:

    Very interesting,I like it.

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Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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