Light Experimentation - Part 8: Sourcing for Motors and Research

We're looking to build a kinetic light set-up with the resin droplets that can hopefully produce a hypnotic effect. Jason and I were looking for suitable motors at Simlim. Our initial idea is to have a motor to pull up each resin droplet and we will control the up-down motion using Arduino.

 The motors are quite expensive and in the end we bought 8 of them from Amazon which reached us in 3 days.

 We were also looking for programmable fairy lights as we were worried that LED strips may not fit well into the acrylic tube - we may want to have 2-3 strips inside but the space is quite tight. Grant suggested to get maximum 1.5cm acrylic tube as the resin droplet opening is only 2cm. The acrylic tube inner space is only 1cm. Unfortunately, there are no programmable fairylights in the market so we have to try to make the LED lights work.

 I  met up with Andreas to discuss if it is possible to have each droplet spin instead of the up-down motion but our worry is that if the droplet were to spin with the LED strips in it, the wires will definitely tangle.

He suggested me to look for spinning discs as that way, the wires may not tangle. We went to Simlim tower to look for the spinning disc and one shop sells it however it will take me a while to build the contraption and it's not easy to do so during this outbreak especially when I also have to work on the rest of resin droplets. I decided that I had limited time so I decided to go back to the up-down motion instead of the spinning