Thursday, December 19, 2013

Super Talented

Todd was looking at kinetic sculptures
on the Internet the other day.
He decided that he liked them
and told me, " I'm going to make one"...
so he did!
 
He made an entire sculpture from scratch, not a kit.
He cut each piece in his workshop and spent
about two weeks assembling the sculpture.
 
 
Here he has the cut out pieces that he is assembling
to a board so that he can see if the sculpture
actually moves.

 
More pieces to the puzzle.

 
The assembled sculpture.

 
A different vantage point.
 
Believe me when I say that
the sculpture is really cool.
I can't believe I'm married to somebody
who is so utterly talented.
I guess someone has to be,
and it sure isn't me.
 
Watch this to see the sculpture move.
 

4 comments:

Amy said...

Very cool - nice job Todd!!!

Anonymous said...

Amazing!! Is it perpetual motion? How did you figure it out, Todd? You do have your talents, Todd, and Brenda, your talents could be somewhat like mine--hidden ones :-) AA

Brenda said...

Thanks Amy. I'll let Todd know you thought it was cool.

Brenda said...

Anne, according to Todd it's not perpetual motion. Apparently it is a constant force (torsion spring). Todd tried to explain it to me, and I gave up trying to understand. If more people are interested, I'll just have him do a blog post on it.

BTW, he bought the plans off the internet. That's how he knew how to assemble it. His next project, I believe, he is going to try and figure out on his own.