NTT: If Waffles Could Fight Pancakes

Now, I wonder if anyone built that thing.

You said someone built a similar thing, but I wonder if anyone just built the thing, the sifter.

I, uh, I, I'm not sure yet.

Hmm.

I, I built an even dumber, more crazy thing for the next book that I'm working on.

I built a miniature sifter called a rotap.

And, and what a rotap does is it was developed, I think, in like 1913 or 1919.

It's just a stack of sieves, and it's a motor that shakes it like wabba, wabba, wabba, wabba, wabba, wabba, wabba in a very specific way at a very specific rate.

And then on top of it is a hammer.

So that's the ro.

On top of it is a hammer that goes tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap to knock the stuff through, and it's just very repeatable.

But the...

And, and you can get them used actually for not that much money.

The problem is they're huge, and they're loud.

So I needed to build a smaller one.

So I built a small 3D-printed rotap, and I haven't fired it up in total yet, but hopefully by next week I'll have some particle analysis for you folks.

I built it around a four-inch sieve.

But that's so niche that I don't even think our Patreon would want it.

You know what I'm saying? It's so niche.

So niche.

So niche.

You know what I mean?

They're not, not releasing the, the ro-all-tap-all?

Yeah.

[laughs] The tapsall.