I made a new video about making three different wheel-within-a-wheel designs using Wild Gears. It’s my personal number one cool thing to do with Wild Gears. I haven’t figured out how to predict the results yet. Just experiment. For more examples, … Continue reading →
Whether or not you’re a Lego aficionado, you might find this mechanism for drawing a spirograph-like design intriguing. Technically it’s not a hypotrochoid like a spirograph pattern produced inside a ring. Rather, it’s a pintograph, produced by a pen held … Continue reading →
UPDATES: I’m updating this post as I get photos and descriptions from Steve White. – HH A reader, Steve White, has been experimenting with using Spirograph pieces and just recently, Wild Gears, on a machine called a Rose Engine. A Rose … Continue reading →
How many Spirograph cookies would you eat? I’d never heard of edible markers, but apparently they exist. And Amber Spiegel, a cookie artist in Beacon NY is not afraid to use them with Spirograph! Here is her video. You can learn … Continue reading →
I don’t think many of the “tots” who ever used the old Spirotot toy – a basic version of Spirograph designed for smaller children – ever made patterns like this. It requires mastery not typical of 5-year-olds. Ariella Zwillinger from … Continue reading →
I created the pinwheel GIF animation below in Adobe Photoshop. Technical details: I scanned the image and cropped it to be square and centered. I duplicated the first layer and rotated it one degree, duplicated the new layer, rotated, and … Continue reading →
Aaron Bleackley, creator of Wild Gears (read about my own experiences with Wild Gears here), is running a Kickstarter campaign that ends tomorrow night (Wed., Oct 28, 2015). Aaron’s first Wild Gears Kickstarter campaign was two years ago. Since that time, he has learned … Continue reading →
A quick video retrospective of 50 years of Spirograph commercials and artifacts in a minute and a half. I particularly like the headline, “Toy for children sets adult world on fire.” As many posts on this site demonstrate, it isn’t … Continue reading →
Making Spirograph designs is a bit like riding a bike. Once you get it, you won’t likely forget it – at least that was my experience, because I learned it as a child, and had no trouble coming back to … Continue reading →
