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Sketching Up and Hacking Up

Sketching Up and Hacking Up

We had a vague idea of how things are supposed to go together.  But, eventually, we’ll have to actually do it.  I took some measurements of the parts I was planning to use and started to put them into Google’s Sketchup.  It has a little bit of a learning curve, but the tutorials were helpful [...]

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More Wheel Work

We made some great progress today on the kinetic sculpture.  I’m going to let the pictures tell the story.

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Brent's sketchup wizardy brings ideas closer to reality.

The Beginning of a Kinetic Sculpture

For the past 4 years, I’ve been jealous of the kinetic sculptures at Burning Man.  Duane Flatmo’s beautiful creations were the first to catch my eye.  But soon I was noticing many other art bikes on the playa.  I kept dreaming about building my own, but I couldn’t wrap my mind around how to get [...]

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