My plan of making a turntable with an adjustable speed motor failed. I had to connect the battery holder and the motor to the circuit board; this did achieve a spinning motion, however this wasn't nearly fast enough and it soon stopped. The turntable needed to rotate around 30 RPM; and after research into this type of mechanism, I found that record players spin at a similar speed (33/45/78 RPM). I picked up a cheap record player and figure that I can attach sculptures straight onto the records themselves!

Firstly, I used a protractor to divide the record into 12 pieces (360/12=30degrees)

As this is only the test of my zoetrope I decided to attempt a simple animation; using polymer clay I made 12 spheres gradually getting larger in size and placed each one on the 30degrees points.

First Test:

As you can see, the animation didn't quite work. The balls should have been seen as if one ball was increasing in size. I think that the problems are as follows: