SISYPHUS TABLE DIY GENERATOR

Education - Forum for Technicians and Engineers.Build Thread- Kinetic art laser 'gun' with stepper motors.A magnetic ball is actuated by a magnet beneath the tank to draw patterns in the sand. Sisyphish, as you might have guessed, is a portmanteau of Sisyphus and fish. Sisyphish is like the Sisyphus Table if it were a fish tank. In fact I was able to build mine with only a few cuts through extruded aluminum beams. Sisyphish was inspired by the Sisyphus Kinetic Art table by Bruce Shapiro. My build uses an XY Plotter, primarily because I have very limited machining resources. The Sandsara table by Ed Cano uses a SCARA mechanism. Is It Possible to Cut this Part on a Plasma Table? The Sisyphus table by Bruce Shapiro uses a polar plotting mechanism which they call the Sisbot.Meanwhile pics of a quick pattern from Sandify and the arduino/sheild electronics

Next post I hope to have a tidy belted motion system to display and some tips on how build a similar set-up for little more than $100US (with a bit of resourceful scrounging) This has motivated me to get the table moving again using electonics usually associated with 3D printers, and some motion parts usually associated with recycle bins.

SISYPHUS TABLE DIY GENERATOR

Those projects have resulted in sand-track patterns available on many websites and even an online generator 'Sandify' Guided by a magnet beneath the surface, the ball creates intricate grooves in the top layer of sand. It looks like a quality product and is priced accordingly. Light Table Meditation Things To Come Pursue 25 Years This cool kinetic art table was created by Bruce Shapiro after he abandoned his medical practice 25-years go to pursue the meditative practice of sand art. Like Sisyphus’s stone, the marble in this table doesn’t roll towards a final destination. The table itself has been sitting in a corner for 8 years or more.įast forward to 2020 and Bruce Shapiro is selling sand tables to the public. The parts used were expensive overkill and eventually were removed for use in other projects. Back then there wasn't much in the way of a roadmap other than Bruce Shapiro's public (museum ?) installations. I built one of these kinetic things in 2009.

Sisyphus table diy