Last week I ordered a 12V motor and a mount off Amazon.

When I was browsing the junk shelf for ideas of what to put on the motor, I found this:

It might be some kind of water pump. I found that the motor mounts perfectly into the cylinder. I liked this more than the mounting bracket holder, so I decided to use it.

I had an antenna in my red box and I taped it to the motor, then for fun added a pencil at the end.

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I liked this slightly chaotic 'drawing machine' and decided to do this.

...last week when I ordered the motor I knew to order the motor mounting bracket but it slipped my mind that I also had to order screw terminal blocks to attach things to the shaft of the motor. It was too late to order them when I realized this so I was left with the option of improvisation.

First try: and old marker cap with clay underneath and tape around. Surprisingly the cap fit perfectly onto the shaft. But not the antenna, so it was pretty unstable.

Second try: drilling two holes into an eraser.

The eraser ended up breaking.

Allyson had the good idea of using wood instead.

I sawed the wood and then drilled two holes in it, one for the shaft one for the antenna. It turned out well - it was stable and adding hot glue further supported it.