Pixel Crab Pose Dial

A pixel-art crab with a knob on its back. Turn the knob and the crab clicks from one pose to the next: eyes ahead, look left, look right, arms up. Then round again.

The crab facing front with its eyes ahead

Eyes ahead

Drag the knob round, use the arrow keys, or tap a pose. This is the knob on its back, seen from behind.

Inside the dial

One knob

The knob turns a single steel shaft that runs through the crab's body. Everything that moves takes its turn from that shaft.

Four cams

Four grooved cams sit on the shaft, one for each job. Turn the knob and all four turn together.

The eyes

Three cams push three sliding bars. Each bar flips a pair of eye blocks, so every eye shows one black window at a time.

The arms

The fourth cam tips a rocker that lifts a yoke, and the yoke swings both arms up by one pixel row.

The click

A spring-loaded ball drops into a notch at every pose, so each one clicks in and stays. The grooves drive both ways, so pushing an arm down won't knock it out of pose.

Round again

Keep turning past arms up and the crab is back to eyes ahead. The knob goes all the way round, in either direction.

Up close

The crab from the front and to one side, its two lower eye windows black
Eyes ahead: the two lower windows show black, the four above stay clay orange.
The back of the crab with its round black knurled knob in the middle
The black knob sits in the middle of its back, ridged all the way round for grip.
The crab from the front and to one side with both arms raised one row
Arms up: both claws sit one pixel row higher, eyes back to ahead.
The crab from the front and to one side with the upper left window of each eye black
Look left: the black jumps to the upper left window of each eye.

Specs

Size
4.7 × 2.6 × 2.8 inwide, deep with the knob, tall
Weight
5.3 oz
Material
PETGclay orange, with black eyes and a black knob; steel pins and shaft inside
Knob
Turns all the way round, both wayswith a click at each pose
  • Eyes ahead
  • Look left
  • Look right
  • Arms up

Put a crab on your desk.

Add the Pixel Crab Pose Dial to your cart, then give the knob its first turn.