August 22, 2004
Turbine Trouble
I'm just finishing off a little cardboard curiosity to add to the download section of the website. The Cardboard Turbine is a spinning turbine powered by a set of bellows. I need an animation for the website but the usual stop motion technique won't work for this so I have created a movie clip with our small digital camera and imported it into Flash. The first time I viewed it it looked like the turbine wasn't spinning. I had used the segmented red and yellow front as seen left. Like the wagon wheels in an old western the spokes on the turbine front were coinciding with the frame rate of the camera, the result - strobing. So, a new design for the front, this time a spiral. It works a treat!. Posted by robives at August 22, 2004 06:09 PM
Comments
What fun! Is it a Tesla turbine, or a bladed turbine?
Posted by: Monte Krol at August 27, 2004 12:48 AMRob, the model looks really neat. Have you decided to let go of the prototype model it's based upon? The one with the flying pig animation?
Posted by: roey at August 28, 2004 10:16 PM