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Sculpture and Art

Sculpture and Art

Tree Trunk RBS Support

Beginning of the Tree I’m trying my hand at making a metal Bonsai tree as the main support for the rolling ball sculpture track. This is going to be tricky because I need to get most of the tree finished before I start placing the track. But there…

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Working Ball Lifter

I just finished building the parts for the ball lifter. This won’t be the last post about this rolling ball sculpture because I need to build the track. But I may not have much to say about the lift mechanism after this. Two-Step Ball Lifter I may need…

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Another Lift Mechanism Change

This is a subtle variation of the previous design. The upper ground connector, for the upper lift, was too far to the left and a little too high. I moved it, and the ground connector below it, a little to the right. The plan was to weld some…

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Finished Lower Ball Lift

Lower Ball Lift The rolling ball sculpture (kugelbahn/marble-run), is coming along slowly but surely. The video shows the lower ball lift working. The upper lift arms will attach to this same frame and lift the ball another five-ish inches. I bought some nicely colored 1” marbles to try…

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Video of Mechanism Test

I have a few more parts built, so I put the motor on and ran this test. Mechanism Test The motor is running "backwards" in this test. The long part sticking out from the two moving parts is just a metal rod I stuck in there to make…

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Rolling Ball Sculpture – More Progress

The previous post about this work-in-progress can be found here. I finished the rough metal work for the frame of the lift mechanism. The frame is designed like a truck frame. Here are some pictures. Three Frame Parts Assembled Frame Motor Installed Ball Stops (not shaped correctly yet)…

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Rolling Ball Sculpture

This is a running log of my progress on the new RBS. I designed the motorized lift mechanism in an earlier blog post, but I’ll show the animation again for completeness sake. Animation of Mechanical Ball Lift I used the Linkage program to design this. It was handy…

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Another Found Kugelbahn Site

I found another rolling ball sculptor that uses copper wire and solder to build very interesting works of art. These rolling ball sculptures are more organic and artistic than many. http://www.heye-draht-art.de/index-E.html His name is Ernst Heye and he is very creative. Even if the link to his site…

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Idea For Rolling Ball Sculpture Track

I was scanning Google images and came across some rolling ball sculpture (RBS) pictures that show a very interesting track design. It is the track itself that interests me because of its mechanical/industrial look. This is not my work…   Flat Aluminum Track The track in these pictures…

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