For our final project for Intro to Mechanical Prototyping, my
team designed and built a kinetic scuplture that blows air through a whistle using
a reciprocating air pump styled after a 3-cylinder radial engine.
My contributions and experience gained include:
- Responsible for designing and fabricating the crank-slider mechanism, the plungers,
and the cylinders
- Gained fabrication experience with a large variety of machines, including: mill,
lathe, CNC router, sandblaster, sheet metal bending
- Gained experience CADing collaboratively using GrabCAD for a large assembly
Our finished sculpture successfully blew air through the whistle to make an audible noise.
