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Thank you everyone for the replies. I apologize, I didn't think the drawing would go into such detailed discussion. It's a theoretical problem that I attempted to use art to answer. I thought if I could visualize it then I would have my answer. We have put this on the side for now. The short...

That's what I said! But he insists that the machine would only rise one foot, not the two feet as drawn. The machine would be even on all four sides. If the four boards were replaced by four fluid tanks (or for this scenario four 5 gallon buckets connected with pipe on the bottom), according to...

Lets assume the boards are connected a door hinge, rope or cable. Yes, something flexible to allow the machine to move.

Bottom left corner... if you walked up to that and stepped on it what would happen? Assuming ofcoarse that the boards were hinged or connected in some way, shape or form. LOL thank you Cheeto.

The picture is a machine. Applying pressure to corner moves the machine; or at least that's the theory. As a side note, which is irrelevant to the drawing, we are working with compressed fluid flow (fluid dynamics) to transfer hydraulic pressure into electricity.

I would love to hear your feedback on this picture guys. I'm not an engineer, but I drew this several years ago as part of an invention idea (hydraulic fluid used to spin a turbine, energy conversion). I've gone WAY past this in my invention, but, my partner and I revisited my sketch book for an...