Mi ventilador de cartón // My cardboard fan

Why did I decide to do this? Actually, several weeks ago, I had thought about buying a fan, but because we are quarantined for now it is not possible, only the stores that are open are for food and medicine. So, here in my country we are in one of the hottest months, it is so hot that you can't sleep at night because you feel that you are going to melt in bed.

The idea of ​​making a fan myself had a couple of days hanging around my head, I decided to discuss it with my family and the answer I got was "hahaha, let me know if it works" the simple fact of the teasing motivated me even more because I know I can do whatever I want to do.

So I looked around the house for materials and these were the ones I used:

• cartón // cardboard

• Tubo de cartón // toilet paper tube

• Tijeras // scissors

• Silicon // Silicone

• Un motor de corriente alterna // ac motor

  Por suerte tenía ya un motor disponible lo cual hizo todo mucho más fácil, antes de encontrar este motor muchas ideas habían rondando por mi cabeza. La primera idea fue que podía utilizar un pequeño motor de algún juguete y hacerlo funcionar con baterías, me preocupaba mucho la idea de que la batería se le podía agotar el mismo día. Debo aclarar que esta primera idea era para un ventilador pequeño, algo individual. Luego apareció el motor que estoy utilizando y me dio la idea de que podía hacer las aspas un poco más grandes de lo que estaba planeando originalmente. Otra de mis ideas es que yo pensaba construir un motor y de hecho tengo todos los materiales que necesito en casa pero la cantidad de alambre de cobre no es la suficiente ya que requiere una cantidad bastante grande para realizar una bobina.

Luckily I already had a motor available which made everything much easier, before finding it many ideas had been around my head. The first idea was that I could use a small motor from some toy and run it with batteries, I was very worried about the idea that the battery could run out the same day. I must clarify that this first idea was for a small fan, something individual. Then the motor I am using appeared and gave me the idea that I could make the blades a little bigger than I was originally planning. Another of my ideas was that I was planning to build a motor and in fact I have all the materials I need at home but the amount of copper wire is not enough since it requires a fairly large amount to make a coil.

Let us begin. First I decided to make the shape of a blade in the cardboard, I cut it with the scissors and this was my guide to make the others, I made 6 blades for my cardboard fan.

Next I used the toilet paper tube to fit my blades, I did it by making marks that had an inclination of 45 degrees or at least I tried to, I proceeded to make the cuts with an exact to be able to introduce the blades.

I used silicone stick and heated it to glue each of the blades to the tube and reinforced by also gluing inside of the tube.

The making of blades // Josehany Burgos // 10/04/2020

I decided to make a small base that fits into the motor, as the motor has a screw-like protruding part. I also made this base out of cardboard, the truth is that I didn't really figure it out, I just used a cardboard box and I cut a hole in the center to fit with the motor and stay there.

El motor que encontré estaba bastante oxidado y sucio, traté de hacer lo mejor para limpiarlo pero no pude hacer mucho.

The motor I found was quite rusty and dirty, I tried to do my best to clean it but I couldn't do much.

Ya una vez listo todo esto, procedí a colocarlo en el motor y probarlo.

Once all this was ready, I proceeded to place it in the motor and test it.

¿Funcionó o no funcionó? // It worked?

Sí funcionó y realmente circula el aire, acá les dejo un pequeño gif del momento justo en que estaba realizando la primera prueba.

Yes, it worked and the air really circulates, here is a small gif of the moment when I plugged it in and did the first test.

¿Que les pareció? ¿Se animarían a intentar uno?

> What did you think? Would you dare to try it?

Todas las imagenes fueron realizadas por mi, soy la autora.

All the images in this post were made by me, I am the author.