Assignment: DC Motor: Actuation Assignment 1

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Description

For this project, I made use of the motor as a driving force for optical illusions. Coming from a cognitive science background, one of the things that fascinated me in my classes was optical illusions, so I downloaded different patterns that could be printed out, and then I used the motor to spin the illusions.

I taped the printouts onto a styrofoam plate, and then held the plate onto the cork using the pushpin. I think it worked better without the styrofoam plate, however.

Components Used

• All of the components from the lab
• Optical illusion printouts
• Cork
• Pushpin
• Styrofoam plate

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benham%27s_top

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_benham/index.html

http://www.illusion-optical.com/Optical-Illusions/SpinningWheelBlack.php

http://www.illusion-optical.com/Optical-Illusions/SpinningWheelColor.php

A Phenakistiscope (http://www.archimedes-lab.org/page17bTer.html)