[sdiy] Circle Machine prototype

[David Brown]

I'm sure it did.  I wasn't trying to build a faithful recreation - 
just one using lights and a spinner. It seemed like a stepper motor 
would be easier than a slow variable speed.  Besides, it gave me a 
chance to play with a stepper motor.  - Dave

At 09:54 PM 8/15/2010, David Griffith wrote:
>On Sun, 15 Aug 2010, David Brown wrote:
>
>>I've been working on building a working model of Raymond Scott's 
>>circle machine.  I thought it would be fun to build something with 
>>motors and lamps.
>[snip]
>
>I was under the impression that the Circle Machine didn't use a 
>stepper, but instead a more mundane variable-speed motor and didn't 
>have a skip feature.
>--
>David Griffith
>dgriffi at cs.csubak.edu