Work / hot-scratch
Hat Scratch Foot Swipe
Motorized head-scratcher hat with a scotch-yoke mechanism, foot-swipe actuated.
- Role
- Mechanical and electrical design
- Timeframe
- Personal
- Stack
- Scotch yoke, small motor drive, wearable mechanics
- Status
- Prototype
Problem
A wearable that scratches a head without using a hand. Rotation has to become a bounded linear stroke, and the whole mechanism has to live in a hat, triggered by a foot swipe.
What I Built
Motorized head-scratcher hat: scotch-yoke mechanism, motor drive, and mechanical integration into the hat.
Result
Working prototype of the mechanism in a hat.