Pages

Sunday, December 28, 2014

Futile Can Crusher

by Aaron
We attempted to make a motorized can crusher. Watch the video for result. Hint: FAIL.

We've decided this isn't a can crusher at all, but actually a metaphorical piece of active art. A metaphor for what exactly, well much debate has occurred (life, making, eon-ic time spans, the environment), but probably best left to the viewer to decide.

The primary culprit is the salvaged microwave turntable motor which is DESIGNED to reverse direction upon any strain. This was also a chance to do some hot-glue electronics potting, where I stuffed all the wires in an aluminium project box and filled it with hot glue (only 6 glue sticks....).

Video below is the total fail version. This thing makes me laugh every time.




1 comment:

  1. I laughed, too. The final part was set up beautifully. I am avoiding details, because I don't want to spoil it.

    ReplyDelete