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I love seeing the sequence from design -> prototype.

I agree with some of the other posters though, any time you have a lot of current going through a connection that rotates / moves, you have the potential of reliability problems.

However, I don't think those are insurmountable problems, and good engineering could make this a reality.

One advantage is, if I recall correctly, UK is 220V as opposed to US 110V, so less current will be flowing through those contacts.



The UK is traditionally 240V, but I believe it's 230V now, so as to be in line with the rest of the EU.


230V -6% +10%, which is just a fancy standards hack to make all of EU technically 230 without having to change voltage from 240


And what's wrong with bare wires pushed into the socket with matches?


That's how real engineers do it.




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