Todd Dunning’s ‘Mount Rainier’ is welded steel creation with a heart. Bob Potts – Cosmographic Voyager Bob Potts – Avian Persuit Tom Shannon’s TED Lecture about his latest sculpture. The Famous Theo Jansen’s walking Strandbeest (and another TED lecture). Wired recently did an article about William Bondin’s kinetic sculpture called Morphs (mobile reconfigurable polyhedra). LINK Unlike […]
CLIP: The writer is a 240 year old analog computer. Built in Switzerland by Pierre Jaquet-Droz one of the greatest clockmakers it is the only surviving example of the time. This is the automata that inspired the movie Hugo. LINK I just discovered this great BBC Program called Mechanical Marvels: Clockwork Dreams by Professor Simon […]
Great ideas are simple in there begining. I like how simple this starts. I wonder how big you can make it? http://makezine.com/projects/make-35/coffee-shop-construction-toy/
This is completely drool worthy! Ken Zeamon details his plans and procedure for making an orrery. He even has a downloadable file with the files for his CNC Sherline mill. Lots more detail and videos here: http://zeamon.com/wordpress/?page_id=526 Via CNC Cookbook via make:blog My favourite part is the 7 months in 7 minutes video because it helps with […]
There are those people who meticulously read books from beginning to end, then there are those who go through them with a fine tooth comb and try to recreate every single device in the classic book 507 Mechanical movements. I love those people! So Yeah! to Matt Keveney who did that very thing on his site http://507movements.com
Nguyen Duc Thang a mechanical engineer in Hue City, Vietnam creates some incredible videos of mechanisms on his YouTube Channel. His videos are a great resource for exploring different motions and linkages for the mechanically minded. Via The Automata Blog This one took me a few watchings to figure out: How to Make a hexagon […]
Time is constant and moves in the same direction, in constant relation to all time zones. Time is not separate and there’s no need for separate devices. This is the WRLDCLCK. Each hand shows a different place (time zone), allowing you to personalize your clock, depending on where and who is important to you. […]
LINK Hot diggitity! Just knowing that there is result based gearing is amazing. What is it about gears that makes me salivate so much? When, if ever, will this be released to the general public? Sadly the answer is “never.” Disney is not known for releasing stuff into the public domain, despite the fact they rely […]
I’m not sure what to feel here. This is an incredible piece of work, no one can dispute that. But what about all those amazing watches that were destroyed to make this? The elegant functionality ripped from them and transformed into a beautiful, but none-the-less static, bastardization. Sadly most steampunk creations remind me of prefab elementary school […]
OOOhhh… a beautifully minimalist carved (routered?) clock face. And while the dials do look like a regular popsicle stick it seems to fit the design. My only suggestion: make it a 24-hour clock. Okum Made via This is Colossal