For this project with a motor, I am planning to make a wave.
My idea comes from the picture below.
It’s a music box that simulates the movements of waves. I quite like it and I want to make my own. But I only have the picture instead of the real music box, I have to figure out how the music box makes the wave movements possible and how to utilize a motor for it by myself.
Draw the draft.
Here are drafts that I draw for this project. They are very abstract like my previous draft. But I think as long it can help me make the project, I might still do it next time.
The difficulty for this part is to find a way to make the spinning wave possible. My solution for making the wave is using acrylic to cut off the same size of rectangles, and then cut off a small square on each rectangle with different angles of inclination.
For the box part, I use the website Make A Box to make two boxes with different dimensions (18.5*7*7 and 5*7*7). Then I modified these two to create a shape of holder that can show and wave and hide the motor and circuits together.
2. Cut with laser
3. Mount the components.
My pieces are too small and similar to each other. Therefore, I spend lots of time on figuring out which rectangular on has a better degree for this position
4. Connect the motor and circuit
The difficulty for this part is that I have to connect the stick with the motor. My DC motor doesn’t have a suitable space for the stick. So I use the screw terminal blocks to connect the motor and sticks. I bought them in a bulb shop.
Then I solder the motor with buttery and button.
Here's the final product.
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