The second project for GEEN 1400 was of larger scale; students built modern-day replicas of more complex devices based on da Vinci's sketches.
 click the photo to see a larger image | Paddleboat by Jaime Catchen, Andrew Gordon, and Ben Gunden.
Click here to see a movie. The gears of the paddleboat were fabricated on the 3D-printer in plastic; the paddles and boat body were laser-cut from basswood. |
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Bill McCann, Brad Cooper, Kelly Pineda, Zachary Levitz The rotation of the waterwheel moves a rachet mechanism which in turn moves a saw blade up and down. |
 click the photo to see a larger image | Water-Driven Mill by Kristen Anderson, Matt Druyos, Shivani Doshi, Erik Plate |