The useless machine: An unproductive machine, a macchine inutili. Of a type possibly invented by Marvin Minsky at Bell labs in the 50’s. It follows a path of artistic expression concerned with inventing machines that have no purpose. To subvert something or what have you. Bruno Munari did that sort of thing in the 30’s. I just got locked into it somehow and made this thing.
A proper obsession project to make a semi-saleable product. Rather than just switching itself off, it uses a servo to control the finger so it seems to possess a personality while doing it.
I had to modify an arduino pro mini to make it super-low power so it can sit waiting for you to play with it.
Incredibly I actually made enough of these to sell. If you want one contact me. £40. Mainly I give them away to friends and family.
If I wanted to make this commercially, it is such hard work and time consuming to print, I estimated I could make a maximum of £200 a month if I did it full time. Cool.