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Step 7Vibrating motors

Vibrating motors

Turn your fans into vibrating motors by cutting off some of the fan blades.

You should try to avoid making them evenly symmetrical by cutting off the fan blades in a different pattern on each fan. This will give it a little bit more of a unique mobility.

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Jul 21, 2011. 4:33 AMceeceemerto says:

what happens if you only use one fan instead of two fans?

Jul 21, 2011. 9:21 AM

randofo (author) says:

Two fans create competing vibration patterns. It will still work with one fan, there will just be less of a dynamic vibration/motion.

Aug 31, 2010. 5:13 AMrobert0joe says:

Can I just use the PS2 controller vibrators?

Aug 31, 2010. 3:15 PM

randofo (author) says:

I suppose so, with mildly varying results.

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