Doing DaVinci is a popular science television program originally aired on the Discovery Channel in which the hosts attempted to create many of Leonardo da Vinci's inventions. The show aired on a weekly schedule with the first episode broadcast on April 13, 2009.[1]
Team
The inventions are created by a team of six members:
Valek Sykes, a special effects expert and mechanical designer, actor, owner of Tech Works Studios and Exit Biohazard and Crime Scene Cleanup
Terry Sandin, a mechanical and animatronics engineer and a host of Prototype This!
The team consults with da Vinci researcher Jonathan Pevsner to understand the inventions and decide on materials for their construction.
Construction
The team first consults with Jonathan Pevsner to decide on materials and map out the basics of the design. The invention is then reconstructed in Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk's Digital Prototyping solutions.[3] Then the team heads to a workshop to begin construction. After the invention is completed it is tested to determine whether or not the build was a success.
Episodes
"Machine Gun"
Notes
^"About Doing DaVinci". Discovery Channel. Archived from the original on April 19, 2009. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
^Lafayette, Jon (March 25, 2009). "Discovery Is 'Doing da Vinci'". TVWeek. Retrieved May 19, 2009.
^"Autodesk Inventor in Discovery Channel Series "Doing DaVinci"". Vizworld. April 26, 2009. Retrieved May 19, 2009.
^"Doing DaVinci Episode Guide". EpisodeWorld.com. Retrieved May 5, 2009.
