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Looking for shaker motor suggestions (for non-pinball application)
dgame:
Get some cheap portable/car fans and cut/break off one of the fan blades on each.
Then you get vibration and some breeze to shake the leaves.
Something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/190714383930 or http://www.ebay.com/itm/380462595583
PL1:
Maybe a cordless drill motor would be better? jumper the trigger switch to your trigger system. (remote switch, pressure plate, motion sensor and relay, etc.) A sound deadening box might help.
Grind flats on the shaft for the weight to reduce odds of slippage.
Maybe a piece of bent rebar?
Scott
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: dgame on August 15, 2012, 02:34:45 pm ---Get some cheap portable/car fans and cut/break off one of the fan blades on each.
Then you get vibration and some breeze to shake the leaves.
Something like this http://www.ebay.com/itm/190714383930 or http://www.ebay.com/itm/380462595583
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Not a bad idea, I thought about maybe doing the same sort of thing to a PC fan.... I have a couple of dead PCs lying around, ready to give up their parts...
Mysterioii:
--- Quote from: PL1 on August 15, 2012, 02:35:19 pm ---Maybe a cordless drill motor would be better? jumper the trigger switch to your trigger system. (remote switch, pressure plate, motion sensor and relay, etc.) A sound deadening box might help.
Grind flats on the shaft for the weight to reduce odds of slippage.
Maybe a piece of bent rebar?
Scorr
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Also worth a shot... I think I have a spare 12VDC cordless drill from many years ago... unless I donated it at some point... Not sure it put out the speed needed to really whip up a good shaking... But I think I have some experimenting to do. ;D
I'll share another thought of mine.... I'm planning to use a few cheap surplus pager motors, and put a blob of thermoplastic over the weights... I have some of that "friendly plastic" thermoplastic that gets soft in boiling water. While it's still soft I plan to pinch it and draw it into a filament maybe 4-5" long sticking off to the side . Toss a few into some loose leaves and drive them by a microcontroller... I hope to use the small motors rustling the leaves to give the impression of "small things".... followed by the shaking of the branches to give the impression of "big things"... :cheers:
lilshawn:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on August 15, 2012, 03:02:39 pm ---Strip a motor out of a dishwasher on the side of the road, mount a grinding wheel to the shaft, and break off a chunk of the grinding wheel?
I've made shaker motors accidentally with the above process.
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That...
I'm...
I...don't know what I expected.
:lol