"Useless Machine" Part Three

I searched the local hobby, and craft stores and found nothing that I felt was appropriate for installing the works of my "useless machine". So, I built my own box. Uh, I am not much of a carpenter. That is obvious from the appearance of my box. It's made out of scraps of the cheapest luan plywood, glued together with plain butt joints, with glue smeared all over the outside of the box. It looks just awful, but it served the purpose of letting me check fit and function, make adjustments and determine the smallest size box I could practically fit everything into. It is a prototype, and looks like one. At this point, I am ready to start thinking about what kind of wood I want to make the real boxes out of, and how to assemble them. I have never made box joints, but this page shows how to make a jig for making box joints that looks pretty straightforward and simple. I won't learn any younger, and it should be a useful skill to have. Yes, I do own a Sears table saw that is at least thirty years old still in serviceable condition. The second photo shows the mechanical part of the machine out of it's box, still attached to the box top. The cam on the back of the actuator arm has been relocated, and the arm itself has been made in two parts by cutting it in half, and joining the two halves with short pieces of 1/4" dowel rods so as to offset the arm by about an inch. This allowed me to offset the GM2 gear motor towards the center of the box, keep the toggle switch in the center of the lid, and reduce the total width of the box. The dowels still stick out to the side because I haven't cut them off yet. I wanted to keep the box as small as possible because I didn't want something the size of a shoebox sitting on my desk. Oh, the box's outside dimensions are about 3.5"x3.5"x5.5". I have motors and other parts for four of these things, and they already have found homes, once they're finished.