Doing Da Vinci

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).

Dr1Bot (Alan Federman’s) YouTube Channel

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2 Responses to Doing Da Vinci

Andrew Foster on March 29th, 2011 at 11:58 pm said:

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.

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Filippo Menconi on March 30th, 2011 at 4:47 pm said:

Very interesting,I like it.

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