Samantha learned about Wild Gears on this site, jumped on board Aaron’s Kickstarter campaign and got herself some sets. Now she combines them with her love of fountain pens and zentangle art. She created a thread on a forum dedicated to … Continue reading →
Thanks to a reader who sent me a link to this video by Delcopond from Spain who calls Wild Gears “the king of spirograph” – which I think is a great tagline.
Continue reading →A video featuring spirograph-like designs drawn with Wild Gears, using its unique ability to draw patterns with parallel lines.
Continue reading →I’m endlessly fascinated with what happens when you draw with a small gear inside one of Wild Gears’ asymmetrical holes in a larger gear, driving that larger gear inside an even larger ring. Maybe you have to watch a video … Continue reading →
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 … Continue reading →
Aaron Bleackley has made a video with tips on how to unpack Wild Gears without breaking or losing anything. Maybe he saw my unboxing video – I was a bit over-enthusiastic and things got a bit chaotic. Wild Gears are … Continue reading →
Ready for a Spirograph challenge? I didn’t get into the two-rack designs as a kid. Maybe I tried it once and found it too difficult; I don’t remember. But a request for some videos about them prompted me to sit … Continue reading →
I have one more video to share that I filmed last summer in the bright sunlight. I put it together with Curtis Thorpe‘s rendition of The Ecstasy of Gold, the classic spaghetti western theme composed by Ennio Morricone for Sergio … Continue reading →
Here’s a video I found on YouTube by Mahesh Pendam, an artist in India. He does amazing photo-realistic art and portraiture, so Spirograph must just be a sideline. If you’re new to Spirograph and are trying to figure out how … Continue reading →
While making the video about the unboxing of the Spirograph Die-cast Collector’s Set, I had some extra footage which I’ve compiled into another video. Two of the patterns are included in the instructions with the set. For the third, I … Continue reading →
