Water wheel with drink can water supply tank

Repurpose your used 250 mL ‘slim’ drink can as the water supply tank [or use the new printable tank file] in this fully functional 3D printed water wheel model.    Inspired by #FuelingInnovation, I wanted to look back at an ancient innovation that had a profound and lasting impact on human civilisation: the humble water wheel. For thousands of years, this technology has enabled us to harness the energy in a flowing stream or river to accomplish a variety of tasks that would otherwise require hard manual labour.  In this model, I use a mechanism for converting the rotation of the water wheel into vertical up-down motion, known as a camshaft. This design replicates a stamp mill, which was used for crushing ore in the process of extracting useful minerals from mined rock (read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamp_mill). The camshaft here is driven by an overshot-style water wheel, with water gravity-fed from a raised tank (in our case a standard slim 250 mL drink can, e.g. RedBu