Overview
The Egg Scan system is a Rube Goldberg machine for cracking and scanning an egg.
The system is kicked off with an exhalation of alcohol-laced breath (whiskey was used) which trips a threshold set on an gas sensor. This then starts a small fan which propels a small sail-car down a ramp. The car hits various levers and reels to drop a metal bracket onto an egg, cracking it through an aperture onto a flatbed scanner below. A subsequent delayed motion swings a counterweighted lever arm to click the button of a wireless mouse, which initiates a scan of the broken egg.
Images
Egg Scans
Collaborators
Components
- Alcohol gas sensor (effectively a breathalyzer)
- Microcontroller
- Custom software
- Electric fan
- Various interstitial mechanisms
- Wireless mouse
- Flatbed Scanner
- Laptop