The fire flower eye motor
For the mounting motor’s assignment, I created a simple sculpture inspired by the character I’ve been developing this semester: The Fire Bird. The initial idea was to work with handshapes that spin creating a fire illusional effect. But it turns out that the DC motor that I used stops very easily when in contact with extra weight, so I simplified the idea and used an acrylic eye that I had instead. It still creates a fire-flower effect when spins, which turned out as an interesting aesthetic experiment for me.
The hardest part was positioning the hole of the enclosure in a way that it forms a perfect angle with the motor, and does not stop because of the friction and spins without shaking the box.
Materials
- Zip ties;
- 3mm Shaft / Axle;
- Black ABS Project box;
- Euro terminal Strip pin;
- 9V Battery;
- Hobby DC motor;
- Switch;
- Wires.
Fernando Gregório 