Category Archives: Wild Gears
Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Exploration with Wild Gears
Exploring the wheel-within-a-wheel patterns gives insight into how these complex patterns form.
Continue reading →Spirograph vs Wild Gears Comparison
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 →
Another Wild Gears Storage Idea
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.
Continue reading →Wild Gears Rain Stick
A rainstick made from the bits of acrylic left over when unpacking Wild Gears. From Suze in Australia.
Continue reading →More Geeky Wild Gears Stuff
Jay Heyl shares a trick he used to help keep the gears in contact with the paper. This probably wouldn’t work with Spirograph, just Wild Gears.
Continue reading →Storing Wild Gears 2: by Jay Heyl
Further to Jay Heyl’s post on storing smaller Wild Gears, he writes: I was thinking some more about storage for the larger gears and rings and had a brainstorm. Here is the result. I considered making something similar but this … Continue reading →
For Wild Gears Super Geeks: Modifications
UPDATE: Since this post, Aaron Bleackley, the creator of Wild Gears, has bought his own laser cutter to produce the gears. It cuts more finely than the cutter at Ponoko, where he used to have the gears made, i.e. the … Continue reading →
WildGears Multimedia with Watercolours
Spongepainting watercolour paper before drawing designs with Wild Gears to produce interesting multimedia artpieces. Leveling up.
Continue reading →Using Rare Earth Magnets on Wild Gears
Suze from Australia sent a picture of her setup for drawing with Wild Gears, in which she uses a heavy-duty magnetic whiteboard and rare earth magnets. Unlike Spirograph pieces, which have a rim supporting the toothed edges, Wild Gears are … Continue reading →