Useless Box

A useless box is a wooden box with a lever on it. When you flick the lever it flips open a hatch on the top a arm comes out and pushes the lever back to close the lid.

1x Motor with reducer

1x Battery (2x AA)

1x Toggle switch (SPDT)

1x Limit Switch

Hook up wire

First I designed my circuit online. So I have my circuit ready to copy onto the actual thing.

This is when I drew up a design of what I will be making.

In this step I soldered 2 wires to the middle pins of the switch.

Here I attached the wires from the switch to the motor

I soldered 2 more wires together to use for the battery pack and limit switch.

I attached the two connected white wires to the top right pin on the switch

Here I attached the white wires to the battery pack and the red wire from the battery pack to the switch.

I added a red wire between the top left and bottom right pins on the switch.

I finished the wiring by attaching the limit switch to the last pin and the white wire. This completed the wiring.

Here I designed my arm on tinker cad that I will use.

I forgot to take a photo in class so I uploaded one from google. In this step I sticky-tapped and glued the floor and walls together of the box. I ran out of time to add a roof.

Again I have no picture of this step but I attached the motor and limit switch to a 3D printed bracket and then screwed it to the floor of the box. This was my finished product because I ran out of time to add the roof, like I mentioned earlier. I also never had my arm printed so I am missing that.