If the youtube player is in 480p mode, i can see what you mean. In 360p mode, you can just see the wheels turning.
It's akin to the old spaghetti westerns when the wheels on the stagecoach seemed to be running backwards due to the frames per second of the recording camera. Also similar to how a stroboscopic timing light works - if the camcorder happens to have let's say 15fps and the wheels on the swingbin are turning 3 times a second and for arguments sake have 5 spokes, that's 15 spokes a second in the same place, giving the impression they are not moving. Granted the wheels have 7 spokes but i couldn't be bothered to work out the maths for that but i guess 21 fps with the wheel turning 3 times a second would work out the same.
Not quite sure if an Agros £9.99 cordless drill would have enough speed or power to propel one of those things along but i daresay an old wiper motor or 2 with a car battery mounted somewhere in the chassis would work quite well.
If that's what your cordless drills look like, I wouldn't want to bump into you in a dark alley!
Here's a pic of that thing in better days. It was built by Pete Farries in the 70's for Berger Paints and was called the 'Tin of Paint'. He also did the Doctor Whomobile.
If that's what your cordless drills look like, I wouldn't want to bump into you in a dark alley!
Ah-ha!! Talking at cross purposes lol!! It's the swingbin racer that's powered by a cordless drill - though the 2 look scarily similar!!
Don't remember the Doctor Who-mobile but i do remember the Outspan Orange and Coke can cars built by Andy Saunders who also grafted a speedboat body onto a Reliant Regal/Robin chassis . . . . . . . . . .
Along the lines of strange looking tools, the last portable compressor i worked on was powered by a twin turbo Magirus Deutz V10 Diesel engine! It was portable honest - with a HIAB!!!
