Build an electric lazy susan and recycle microwave parts (self rotating display pedestal)
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- What can you do with a broken microwave? Why use the food platter to make an electric, self rotating lazy susan/display pedestal of course!
Dood! Ingenius, thank you! I just happen to have an old microwave and (was) in need of a lazy suzan! Plus, not very often that I need a youtube creator to talk slower, but you win the prize! LOL Thanks so much for this. Any other videos you want to make, I'd love to watch.
Great video - I love taking broken electrical goods to use the working parts - I have boxes of parts and no ideas where to re use them L O L keep on making awesome videos dude :)
This video was so much fun to watch! LOL thanks. Nice work, too, ingenious.
I've never seen anyone cut a circle like that before.
Nice video
All that noise? No thanks, leaving.
It looks like it's holding back a few times? I need something that is very steady and reliable
you're a legend quint
do a video where you have a lazy susan built into a drafting or tabletop drafting table that's synced up to a motor that you can control the rotation by remote or foot-switch!
Wonderful project! PS Don't listen, you talk fine!
could that one be for sale?
It's heavy for a small motor
Awesome project!
May I know the maximum weight the microwave turning machine can withstand?
Shin Wai Yan I'm not sure how much it can withstand but if it can fit in a typical microwave odds are this thing can turn it.
not good... we 're interested in how to make a lazy suzan that rotates 10 or 20 degrees increments and stops without using arduino or other expensive means
could you elaborate further on how you'd like it to rotate? what application are you wanting to use it in?
a lazy suzan for 3d scanning photogrammetry. move 10 degrees then stop until you click a switch again then move another 10 degrees stop ... i know its probably not easy and you have to use a stepepr motor and arduino board to controll it ...not sure if a simple mechanical solution is available ... somehow after 10 degress the motor to loose contact ... but to be able to witch it back on for another 10 degrees and loose contact...
Interesting use. I'm sure it is mechanically possible to have it rotate 10 degrees, stop for a few seconds for you to snap a picture and then it automatically rotates another 10 degrees. But I doubt it'd be a simple solution. I think using a stepper motor driven by a dev board would be an easier solution that provides less moving parts to wear out or jam up and can be far more precise if needed. If it needs to be exactly 10 degrees each time then u can calibrate the dev board to drive the motor x amount of steps. You could also forgo the motor and use move it by hand and have one mark on the side of the rotating piece and more marks every 10 degrees around the base, so u just rotate until the lines meet, snap a pic then rotate till it lines up with the next line.
excellent! Do you know how much weight this turntable resist?
It's current load is probably about 5 lbs. Really if a typical microwave platter can turn it, so can this thing.
+Q.T. Productions of Utah Tks!
Can a dimmer switch control the speed without damaging the motor?
Jason Chatto unfortunately no. The motor is AC and will be damaged if the voltage running to it is changed too much (basically what a dimmer switch does). A DC motor's speed can be controlled with a dimmer switch but even that isn't the best way.
Jason Chatto exactly what the quintessential gamer said. A dimmer switch on a DC motor would be the easiest way of controlling speed. A pulse width modulation (PWM) controller instead of a dimmer switch is more effective and you can find ones for small DC motor's on ebay for $5-$10. And if you REALLY need to control the speed of an AC motor there are variable frequency drivers (VFD's) but they are expensive and are meant for large motors.
How would you go about making a low cost variable speed unit?
Sorry, I asked that question before reading the second reply. Thanks to both of you.