For our school maker faire we decided to construct a giant-bubble blowing machine. We decided on this project out of other suggestions because we looked through its assembly instructions and found that it involved skills that we wanted to learn more about, such as woodworking and programming.
We started out with the frame. We bought an old broken half sawhorse from a hardware store then set about the task of removing unnecessary pieces and making it overall sturdier and less dangerous by replacing old nails with new ones. After completing the renovations, we nailed an additional wooden platform to the side and used hinges to allow it to swing out. Our framework was complete. We moved on to the process of sawing two large notches into the side of the swinging platform, and inserted servos, each with a long dowel attached. That’s as far as we’ve gotten so far, but we plan to soon add the fan to blow the bubble mixture, and string the dowels together to pick up bubble mixture.
One of the numerous obstacles along the way of our maker faire experience was the non-immediate availability of certain materials necessary to our project. We were able to overcome this difficulty by working with what we had while we waited for the materials, than adding them once they had finally arrived, as well as buying some of the materials ourselves.
If you were to make this yourself, you would need about $150 in supplies, and about a week of intense work, and many tools such as saws, drills, solder and more. If you want to make it the instructions are at this site: makezine
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