Today I had an Idea! I will make a better rock tumbler!

My first plan, is to make a portable rock container. A plastic baggie was suitable. Preliminary baggy testing:

Rocks in the baggie:

And after walking to the store with the rocks in the baggie in my shoe:

It was time to put rocks in a mt. dew bottle and shake them! Note the blurryness and almost invisibility of the bottle. It shows how amazingly fast I was shaking the rocks.

Next up: rocks in water. The theory here was that if a river can slowly wear down a big rock, than a tupperware full of water can wear down a small rock. :)

This had very little effect....actually none. The rocks were wet. That's about it. Maybe if I put them through a fan!

Alas, the fan never spun up, and even tho I hooked it up to several different power supplies, including a normal power supply for that fan, a 4-pin molex connector, and something inside a vcr somewhere, it never worked. It was taken outside and smashed with a hammer. Then I put rocks inside a VCR, in the hopes that they would be "tumbled" by the moving parts inside.

It didn't work. The servo was too weak to actually grind the rocks which I placed in the gears. I then forcibly removed the servo and hooked it up to standard 120 volt house current, which produced a large spark and some interesting smells. There is a representation of what the spark looked like (I was recording, but the computer turned off as soon as this happened):

Can't wait till tommorow!