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DA VINCI RECIPROCATING MECHANISM

Re-create Renaissance tech to convert rotation into a square wave.

By Alan Federman

Last year I was blown away by the clever mechanisms displayed in the Leonardo da Vinci exhibit at the Tech Museum of Innovation (thetech.org) in San Jose. I ...

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