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I found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas. <p>I found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas.</p>< p>I found this video on YouTube while looking around for mechanism ideas.</p><P></P></div></DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>I need to learn how to make gears. There are just too many…
Continue readingI’m building a new RBS. The first thing I am working on is a new design for an atypical lift mechanism. I want to lift the ball on the end of a lever, but not use a gate mechanism to pick up the ball. This lift mechanism will…
Continue readingI was just playing around with ideas for a pointless machine and came up with the mechanism shown in the video below. Pointless Machine with Pizzazz The idea was to make the mechanism do something beyond just a simple rotational movement. I will probably work some more on…
Continue readingI am at that stumbling point between projects where I have many ideas and none of them is compelling. The current welded milk jug project is going slowly because I have lost a little bit of interest in it. A few weeks ago, I was trying to cut…
Continue readingI have worked on various art projects over the years. This is a collection of some of those projects. Links are provided when more details or alternate views are available. Computer programming projects can be found here. Untitled Rolling Ball Sculpture 2018 Steel, Acrylic, Electric Motor Untitled…
Continue readingThe latest sculpture from my Welding for Art class at TMCC. This was an interesting project. The requirement in class was to make a sculpture that would be interesting to a blind person. I had a drawing of this sculpture that was a few years old but that…
Continue readingI have never felt the need to title a sculpture. After seeing an “artist” on TV giving fancy names to giant colored canvases, I felt that a name is just a distraction. Plus, I never like the names that I come up with and never feel a verbal…
Continue readingI picked up a pneumatic die grinder at Harbor Freight for $15.00. It is a tony right angle unit and would be an awesome tool if not for the fact that my compressor runs out of air after I use it for about 30 seconds. So I bought…
Continue readingI have finished another RBS (Rolling Ball Sculpture). The wife and kid picked out the colors. RBS Still Image RBS Video This is about 12 inches tall. It has one reversing section and a cool looking finale. The ball track is 3/32″ steel welding rod brazed at all…
Continue readingI worked on this a few years ago. The idea is that the arms go around and around and the wings flap. The mechanism is made to look interesting. I took the photos last night since I had never documented this sculpture before and I’m in a blogging…
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