This week, I learned that it is much, much, much harder to make things than it looks.

The assignment:

• Create a kinetic sculpture. Include circuitry to move your sculpture.
• Control the sculpture with a circuit on a breadboard that uses components in the lab (e.g., resistors, potentiometer). Use a multimeter to measure the voltages in your circuit. Use Ohm's law to calculate current through the circuit.
• Document your work and learning. Include at least one video/gif of your sculpture.

So many potential directions for a kinetic sculpture!

• First Idea: I originally wanted to involve the water pumping motors (which pump water from one source to another) in a kind of upside down carousel such that the water would spray down in a spiral as the carousel twirled, "trapping" whatever animal I put inside it. I ended up deciding against this because the logistics of having two water sources to transport water in between plus making sure the motors and the water sources moved with the sculpture seemed like I would be in a little over my head.
• Bird Sketch Idea:
• Other Ideas:
• Other Ideas:

Sorry for the lack of explanation. More to come! But here is my finished kinetic sculpture: