DIwhy? rattle

DIwhy? Rattle (Grogger: Yiddish, Ra’ashan: Hebrew)

The noisemaking rattle is used in Jewish tradition during the reading of Esther scripture on the Purim holiday, obliterating the name of wicked “Haman”.

The DIwhy? rattle is a follow-up on an assignment to design a custom “drill-bit” for an electric screwdriver/drill in Bezalel’s M.des Industrial Design Rotational course. One of the predominant expressions of rotational movement can be found in religion: pilgrims lap around the Kaaba in Mecca or around mt. Kailash in Tibet, Sufi Dervishes whirl, Jews spin Dreidels - and celebrate the “hag” (Heb: holiday/circumvent) and Buddhist monks turn prayer wheels.

The 3D printed plastic frame traps all the necessary components for realizing the ritual noisemaking. At the same time it literally frames the occurrence and creates a visually legible noise even when “unplugged”.

Print-ready DIwhy? rattle files (for the Wolf PD13/700 Impact Drill, for other drill models either modify the