A website about Spirograph, Super Spirograph and other tools for drawing hypotrochoids and epitrochoids such as Wild Gears!
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A website about Spirograph, Super Spirograph and other tools for drawing hypotrochoids and epitrochoids such as Wild Gears!
Latest posts:
Exploring the wheel-within-a-wheel patterns gives insight into how these complex patterns form.
Continue reading →The 1967 Spirograph Refill Kit had a bunch of new Spirograph patterns with instructions, plus some mystery patterns with no pictures!
Continue reading →Tips for buying new or vintage Spirograph sets – where to look and what to look out for.
Continue reading →If you’re a Spirograph geek like me, you’ll love this. It’s a booklet from a 1968 Denys Fisher Spirograph set put out in the UK. Ron Peters from the Netherlands kindly photographed every page so we can all learn from … Continue reading →
UPDATE August 2020: The link to the store mentioned below is no longer working. If you’re looking for Spirograph replacement parts, try Etsy or eBay. Sometimes people sell individual pieces there. The vintage Spirograph sets are compatible with the new … Continue reading →
Maybe you can help Ron Peters, who wrote from the Netherlands, with a mystery: EDIT: Aug. 13: See the bottom of this post for an update! I (re-)discovered spirograph the 25th of June this year when I bought the starter … Continue reading →
An excellent video by Wayne Schmidt comparing Spirograph and Wild Gears side-by-side. Conclusion: Spirograph is fun, but it’s a toy. Wild Gears is more expensive, and somewhat more difficult to use, but it’s a more serious drawing tool. Shop Wild … Continue reading →
Any Bruton used one of the cardboard boxes the Wild Gears ship in and used putty to adhere the gears to the inside of the box, arranged by size and labeled. Neat, inexpensive idea.
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