Hey sweet, sweet souls. I am what you would call "a newb". I know nothing. But I am working on a project with an Arduino Uno and need some damn guidance. Once again, treat me like a little baby boy with a deceptively muscular body, that is with a mix of bewilderment and caution. Because though, like a baby, I blabber, over-salivate, and have yet to grasp object permanence, I am strong and WILL FIGHT YOU IF YOU PET ME THE WRONG WAY!!!
Now let's get concrete. I am simply trying to create a box filled with flowers that vibrate because of some kind of trigger. Though I haven't determined what kind of trigger yet (be it light, sound, whatever), I am already stuck at what type of vibration motor to get. I've been loosely following this tutorial (How to Build a Vibration Motor Circuit), I'm afraid the vibration motor won't be powerful enough to make the flowers jiggle (this is the one i'm looking at Vibrating Mini Motor Disc : ID 1201 : $1.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits). I'd like to know before buying it because i'm short on time.
Can anybody bless me with constructive advice and maybe a compliment or two? Can anybody be my guiding light? I will be grateful and will compliment you in return (if you give me some information about you or send a picture of your bellybutton or something).
What kind of flowers - real or fake/plastic? Will you be vibrating individual flowers, or the whole box? The whole box would require a substantial motor.
forget the vibrating motor. motors vibrate at some high frequency, your link shows 11,000 RPM
if you want to see flowers jiggle, you need hertz, a couple times a second, maybe.
watch some earthquake videos and see the difference between long waves and short waves.
as for the flower pot, mass = power. if you have a plastic pot, with plastic flowers and the whole things weighs one pound. that is totally different than if you have a plant with soil that is wet and weights 40 pounds.
they make long stem butterflies that are designed to jiggle, you put them in the flower pot. you could vibrate those
but to make a pot or planter move to make the long stems wiggle, you need distance, not speed. a servo motor of sufficient power could move the box back and forth.
try it with your hand, take your cell phone, put it on vibrate and hold in on a pot.
take the same pot and move it back and forth with your fingers.
got a thomas steam engine battery train you can use ?
it has an AA battery, low speed, lots of gearing, and the wheels have a link you could use to push a very light weight plastic pot back and forth.
