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Pendulum drawing machine — harmonograph kinetic sculpture with a rocking table
100k ft — What is this?
Pendulum drawing machine — harmonograph kinetic sculpture with a rocking table
50k ft — Why care?
A welded kinetic drawing machine (harmonograph) with four pendulums: two drive the pen in X and Y, and two more rock and rotate the drawing table to add chaos to the patterns. Shown mid-build ahead of an art show.
10k ft — Key takeaways
• Couple extra pendulums to the table, not just the pen, for richer figures
• Shared rods between pendulums inject controlled chaos
5k ft — Tools & techniques
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coupled pendulums, harmonograph
1k ft — Deep-dive / try it
The big REVEAL 😊. You’ve had some good guesses! This is not quite finished yet, but the #drawingmachine #kineticsculpture will be done in time for the art show on March 1st! If you come you’ll see it! 🖊️ ⚙️
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Transcript excerpt
I've got another view of the drawing machine. All four pensions are going right now. The back two that are on this one here, they're not hooked up yet, but that will rotate the table back and forth. And there's two pensions that run the same, that same rod to add a little more chaos in the rotation of the, of the drawing table. So here's the, this is only X and Y going right now. And then when that last one goes, it will be rocking the table back and forth to add a little more diversity in the, in the drawing. So that's it, but I'm liking this leakage.