The assignment is to pump water up the hight of 6 meters using manual labour or the wind. I’ve talked about this in a few blog posts, this is basically a test to see how well motion path animation is on AutoCAD, and how well flickr video is.
This also tests how well, flickr blogs it to my blog, let’s see how well it goes.
[Update]
Looks like it’s blogged alright, and it looks all pretty, which is nice.
This is my current pump design for a CAD assignment. We have to design a system to lift water 6m high into a second tank. I’ve decided to go with the standard piston pump, in the opposite way of a car. In a car fuel explodes pushing the pistons up and down, which turns a shaft. This system turns a shaft which pushes water up and down, and with the use of valves, forces the water in the cryan hose and out the orange hose, using suction. Kinda what happens when you start a car, with a starter motor.
I still need to design a power source for the pump, something like a bike or windmill. I’m thinking more of a bike setup, with a gear ratio of 3:1, 3 bike pedals to 1 revolution of the pump. It should be fairly easy to implement.
A friend of mine is going for a ram pump setup that doesn’t require a power source, however is quite wasteful, as some of the water is discarded.
So far I’m liking this assignment, however I’m not looking forward to the write up.