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 →
Do you love Spirograph but are ready for something more? Or do you love someone who is, maybe someone you like to surprise with presents? Have you seen my Wild Gears page, or any of my Wild Gears videos, or the … Continue reading →
Suppose you want to draw a Spirograph pattern using both rings. How would you change the ring so that everything still lines up, and you don’t lose the center and the symmetry? This was a question from Michaela Fredrich in … Continue reading →
My jaw dropped when I first saw that Kahootz was bringing out a die-cast metal version for Spirograph’s 50th anniversary. So I was delighted when they offered to send me a set to review. [Disclaimer: I was not otherwise paid … Continue reading →
