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For a while now, I've been trying to think of a small wind-up motor that could be used for a power source. I had this funky old 8 mm movie camera sitting around the studio for years, but it wasn't until I found another, cooler-looking camera in a thrift store, that I thought of taking the ugly one apart and using the motor.

The challenge here was figuring out the joint at the elbow, once I made a prototype that worked smoothly, I knew this piece was going to turn out great.

I added a button, attached to the shutter control, that activates the motor when pushed. The motor runs one complete cycle, then stops, until the button is pushed again.