DIY Taffy Machine – first test
June 12, 2012 2 Comments
Okay, so i may actually be finally getting back into hardware based projects. It’s been quite awhile hasn’t it. Well, i think i did need a break from it for awhile, but for the most part i think my tinkering spirit is back! I hereby present my latest project. My homemade DIY taffy puller machine!
Overall it’s actually a fairly simple design. I based some of it off of the one from MAKE magazine, and some off of another design posted on youtube and on the Internet. But my design is much simpler and smaller than those other two designs, and mine also requires less parts. In fact my design doesn’t even need the two gears in the front. In fact i have two motors that i could put on it if i ran one backwards.
I actually managed to draft some of it in SoldWorks which i think is petty cool, especially considering that I’m not interested in majoring in Engineering and have little interest in learning to draft either.
The design specs have been posted to my website:
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Hi, I don’t know much about wordpress but I am working on a series of little movies to go with a biology textbook. I would love to be able to use some of your teosinte photos in my movies. Is that possible?
Hi Judy,
Yeah that would be fine by me. Teosinte is a fascinating plant, with few photos available on the internet. I will try to email you directly, as i have a few more photos that i’m not sure if i posted here on my blog of several different varieties of teosinte.