Konstantino K's Paper & Motors REDONE

Seeing as the first iteration of my "Chaos Box" was left incomplete due to technical difficulties (namely, the single fan I had did not have the power to blow the confetti all throughout the box), I took it upon myself to follow up with the assignment and create a more finished product. If you'd like to see my original work, please click here.

The main fixes and updates for this iteration, of which I'll now refer to as "Chaos Box v2," are as follows:

• A sturdy enclosed box: The original wasn't fastened together as the fan wasn't working successfully. I wanted to be able to get back in there to fix the issues later. Version 2 is reinforced with cardboard on the four main walls.
• No more alphabet metaphor: I found that the "alphabet tiles" in version 1 were not successful, as the mass of confetti made the letters generally illegible. In this version, I chose to focus on the chaos of the confetti and the way paper can interact with the wind. It's always fascinating watching papers fly around in a dust tornado, right?
• Lighter confetti: The original confetti was created with cut out strips of construction paper. Version 2 uses coloured tissue paper used for gift wrapping. The result is a much thinner, lighter material that is far more likely to be picked up by air currents.
• Upgraded fan x2: The last version of the box used a 6V DC motor with a custom fan blade I had assembled out of a few pieces of bristol board and some rubber bands. The new fans are solid fans used in computers (these are often used to cool down a CPU or graphics card). Furthermore, I've used two fans now, one placed on either side of the box, to create better circulation inside the box. This allows the confetti to blow around infinitely, while the original version simply pushed all the confetti it could reach to the opposite side of the box.

Overall I'm quite pleased with the modifications. The end result is quite literally a chaotic box, where you can easily lose yourself for several minutes staring at the different colours mix with each other frantically.

In a further iteration, I would like to include two more motors on the remaining walls, as well as to boost the voltage going to each fan independently. This would allow all four fans to spin much quicker and create more wind power through the entire box, ultimately covering a much broader space and making the confetti blow around even more chaotically.