"Cucumber" Guillotine

This is a project I made for If This Than That at the HKU. The assignment was to make something in Arduino with both an input and an output. So naturally I made a guillotine for "cucumbers". If a "cucumber" goes into the hole it presses the button at the end and turns a lever so the rope with the saw connected to it falls. I made a lot of mistakes during this project, but I do know a lot more about Arduino now than I could show. I had to dumb the project down quite a lot before I got it working the way I wanted.