Evan and Katelyn

Here I go over-engineering things again...

Added 2023-03-22 18:30:34 +0000 UTC

So as part of the "glow in the dark garden" our AI friend Echo has us working on, we wanted to make a glow in the dark planter to house everything. We of course went to the thought of covering it with resin... but how do we keep the resin on while it cures? If we do a pour over then most of the resin would drip off. We thought back to the resin tumblers we made, but didn't have anything to continuously turn something so big!

But my mind immediately went to some spare electronic parts I had... just because I thought they were cool honestly. A low RPM little motor and a speed controller for that motor. IT WAS PERFECT! So I decided to build a whole rotisserie as a little tangent to this project haha.

I used some scrap wood we had laying around and then grabbed some bearings from the bearing drawers, then fired up the 3d printer and lasercutter to make spare parts and VOILA!

Honestly the gears were probably the most difficult part but it turns out that laser-cut 1/4" acrylic gears were enough to turn this planter and keep it steady! Now... hopefully it can continuously spin for like... 10 hours haha. Not sure if the build will really make it into the video but I was excited and wanted to share with y'all.

-Evan