Week 7 – Wayward Shifty
Posted by britree on July 6, 2010
I started this toy a long time ago and never got around to gluing on the key. So an easy jump back into this project was to just assemble THE LAST PART. I love going back to projects like this 
My friend Tiffany of Wayward Shiftys (her clothing line) makes cute, creepy little characters called “Shiftys”. They just kind of appear. Like, WHOOOOAAAAA. I decided I wanted to make a shifty moving shifty so Tiffany kindly donated one of her shifty posse members to Bribot’s ULTIMATE MEGA TOY A WEEK project. It took me FOREVER to drill out the inside of the Shifty. It was made from baked Sculpey and it was like drilling through an eraser!
The idea was to make it spin around in a circle. I had a regular car gearbox that turned wheels. Then I put in a 3rd wheel oriented 90 degrees to the other 2 wheels so the shifty would be forced to spin around. It would have been amazing if I could have had a wheel that moved in all directions, but I only have so much patience! I also glitched drilling the hole for the key and had to move it around a few times thus creating a giant gaping hole in the side of Shifty…..but there was life!
Watch the video!
