Derp

That’s what I get for thinking late at night. To do this is pretty simple. Get one great that matches the drum. Get a flexible belt that has teeth to match the gear. Get a slack take-up wheel thing. Have the belt wrap (teeth out) around the bottle, with the tension wheel, um, making baby tensions our whatever. The two cylinders should be bumping in time.
I don’t even know if I need gears. Really, you almost never need gears. Gears make things easy to calculate, predictable, sad. I could go all nutty and use sand paper or rubber bands. Either one will give me super high friction, and by friction I mean mechanical joining. Rubber bands are easy to source, sand paper is almost as good. I’d need at least one big rubber band for the bottle tension wheel thing. The other one needs to be thin enough it disappears into the roller.
Just replied a text from the Wif. I asked her if we have any of said big rubber bands. We’ll see.
I should just carve the roller, like I’m doing block printing. Lord knows I have enough of these rollers. It would do a nice job of taking out the middle man of the plates. I should get some of the craft paint and see how will it adheres to the rollers. As in, an I going to be doing positive it negative printing. Either one is easy enough, it’s just how much I need to carve away. It might also affect the minimum object size. I’ve never tried doing a 3d block print before. Depending on the material of the individual roller, it might fill in on small voids if the roller holds the ink too well.
I joked about my project of the minute with my coworkers today. Most everyone sounded surprisingly interested in the final. It always kinda surprises me as I’m notorious for not ever building this stuff, just thinking about it until I have a plan and then calling it a day. Its probably a manifestation of my fear of failure. I should get this proj rolling. Hahaha. Best pun ever.