Week 3 – JitterBug

This piece is called JitterBug.  It’s comprised of a gear box with counterweight, mint tin, green rubber coated wire, sea creature arm, 2 springs, gears from a play-skool toy car, and bug wings.  The arm and additonal spring are hidden inside the mint tin around the gear box, just as fodder.  It was really hard to manipulate the wire, so all the legs are a bit uneven which, makes movement unstable.  In addition, the wings throw the weight off-center as they rotate around the toy.  It sort of has a lurchy, jittery movement.  I wanted to use the rotation of the key to move another gear, so I added the extra yellow one at the back.

Check out the video!