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Every time I tried to build one of those, I got horribly scratched by  
the cat when I tried to insert the shaft.

Please send me a method in detail, suitable to submitting as a end of  
term project, for how it should be done.


On Mar 17, 2008, at 3:54 PM, Zack Widup wrote:

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> I have often wondered if you could use an AVR to control the speed  
> of the
> infamous cat-and-butter motor.  Since buttered bread always falls  
> buttered
> side down, and cats always land on their feet, if you strap a piece of
> buttered bread to a cat's back (butter facing up) and drop him, the  
> two
> laws cancel each other and the cat hovers spinning above the floor.  
> Add a
> shaft and you can get real power out!
>
> There must be a way to control the speed.
> :-)
>
> Zack
>
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008, David Kelly wrote:
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>>
>> You mean this isn't the proper place to argue which side of the  
>> bread to
>> butter? Or whether a PCB should be soldered from the top with a hand
>> held soldering iron, or from the bottom as with a solder wave?  :-)
>>
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