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.
Continue reading →A rainstick made from the bits of acrylic left over when unpacking Wild Gears. From Suze in Australia.
Continue reading →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 →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 →
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 →
Spongepainting watercolour paper before drawing designs with Wild Gears to produce interesting multimedia artpieces. Leveling up.
Continue reading →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 →
Being laser cut on demand out of sheets of acrylic, Wild Gears do not come with a storage system. So, how to keep them in some kind of tidy but usable state? Here are some great ideas with photos from … Continue reading →
I keep trying new combinations of Wild Gears to make “wheel-within-a-wheel” designs. Here is a lacey, loopy one, shown on video and also available as a colouring page.
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