Remember the Spirograph toys you had when you were a kid, which let you draw mathematically precise hypotrochoids and epitrochoids (or, as I called them, “neat shapes”) without cracking a sweat? What ...
Exhibited at MINDCRAFT 11 earlier this month at the annual Milan Design Week, Eske Rex's room-sized drawing machine looks like a medieval torture device, bulky and unwieldy, rough and unfinished. But ...
Stepper motors are great for projects that require accurate control of motion. 3D printers, CNC machines and plotters are often built using these useful devices. [InventorArtist] built a stepper-based ...
Dominating a whole room, it looks far too unwieldy to draw a geometric picture with a small ballpoint pen. But this giant Spirograph graphic images that are both huge and unique each time. Swedish ...
Ohio University printmaking MFA student Robert Howsare hacked two ordinary turntables to make Spirograph images. The simple art project, named "Drawing Apparatus," cost him just $50. "The turntables ...
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Remember that nifty Cycloid Drawing Machine making the internet rounds back in March? Its inventor, Joe Freedman, is back with a smaller, simpler version called the DuoGraph, making it easier than ...
When a British engineer named Denys Fisher introduced the first Spirograph set at a toy fair in 1965, he tapped into a demographic of non-artists who really wanted to create art. Those sprocketed ...