Ponoko Profiles Wild Gears
UPDATE April 2020: After prototyping Wild Gears using Ponoko to produce the product, Aaron Bleackley has purchased his own laser cutter and now produces them in-house. Shop Wild Gears at this link.
The laser-cut-on-demand company that Aaron Bleackley used to prototype Wild Gears, Ponoko, has profiled Wild Gears on its blog! It’s a wonderful, in-depth article.
They tell the backstory of how Aaron Bleackley discovered Spirograph, wanted something more, and so developed Wild Gears.
Aaron has run two Kickstarter campaigns that blasted way past their targets. That shows that lots of us are really interested in having something more sophisticated to play with and to make art with.
Ponoko provides a great platform for prototyping products and making them available to others, without needing to build a manufacturing plant, stock inventory or set up a shipping department.
I for one am very happy that Aaron Bleackley and Ponoko discovered each other! And that I learned about it from a friend of his, Barry M Sawyer, who visited this website and left a comment and a link. Thank you, Barry!
Click here to read the article about Wild Gears on Ponoko’s blog.
Hello,wild gear and spriograph i used had while in childhood time until now i never forget to mess art on it lost my spriograph never thought about it umtil saw u tube awesome colorful ink nor black ink wow i went hobbytown order super and duplex but now like and want buy from wildgear this stuffs wild bigger sets some day would buy this later on thanks Arron B and Ponoke bring this old style and new WG sets Spriograph the best
Thank you!!!!!
Yay! Great.
I’ve been Wild Gearing for about a year now. I started with the small set, then got a couple of the large sets, then got in on Kickstarter #3 and picked up a couple more sets. This is loads of fun but it’s let me with a bit of a problem. How do I organize and store all these pieces, some of which are a bit on the fragile side once removed from the frame? At the moment I have a hodgepodge approach, using a double-sided “micro utility” box for the smallest gears and the donuts, a project box for the largest gears and rings, and a CD case for the gears in between. I’m satisfied with the micro utility box but the other solutions leave something to be desired. The project box ends up with everything sort of dumped together. This makes it hard to find what I’m looking for and I’m a bit concerned about breakage. The CD case kind of works but the smaller gears keep wanting to work their way free and it’s not as easy as I’d like to put my hands right on the gear I want. I also don’t like the non-uniformity of my solutions.
I’ve been thinking about getting a rolling storage cart with a lot of drawers, hoping that might be a better way of keeping everything organized and together. It might also have room for my pens and paper supplies.
I’m curious about what approach others have taken to solving this problem.