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Photo Ferris Wheel.

StatusShipped
Year2013
MotorStepper · L293D driver
Lighting2 × full-colour LEDs
MCUArduino
Fab3D print

A small rotating photo display — six frames on a wheel, driven by a stepper, lit with two RGB LEDs. First attempt at mechanical engineering on paper before cutting prints.

Initial sketch · interference + sizing calculations
FIG 01 Initial sketch · interference + sizing calculations

§ 01 — Notes

First 2013 project where “sketch before print” actually worked. Earlier builds discovered interference only after printing. The ferris-wheel problem: six photo clips must rotate around the hub without colliding — so the max radius of each clip and the inner rim diameter had to be calculated on paper first.

§ 02 — Motor

Stepper + L293D + Arduino. Stepper chosen to stop precisely on each photo. A later blog note that “it should have been a DC motor” is hindsight, not the build — the finished piece is the stepper version.

§ 03 — Afterward

Only two low-res originals survive from the 2013 blog (Google Photos then had no notion of “originals”), so they look rough — keeping them is the monument.

Build · stepper + L293D + RGB LEDs
FIG 02 Build · stepper + L293D + RGB LEDs