Building a Pottery Wheel

Ingredients

  1. One slightly used treadmill
  2. Netduino or Arduino
  3. Guitar volume pedal
  4. Wires and resistors
  5. Shaft – size 5/8″ or 3/4″?
  6. Bearings
  7. Pulleys

Directions

  1. Rip apart treadmill
  2. Pull out motor
    IMG_2179
  3. Pull out controller board
  4. Pull out console
  5. Wire up everything
  6. Figure out what type of shaft, pulleys and bearings to use
    PotteryWheelDiagram