Tuesday, June 01, 2010

Building a new magbot pendulum......


So it seems I've hit the magbot pendulum phase of my projects with 2 being build right now and a couple of ideas floating around in my head........
The most recent one started out as an all wooden one: a few weeks back I bought some wooden balls to be used as pendulums.Then I thought it would be interesting to use the wooden balls as a reoccurring part in a  magbot pendulum.Version1 was: a large size ball on a stand,a wooden dowel inside it and at the end a medium size ball,then two wooden arms with small size balls at the end and

then smaller size balls as pendulum bobs.
But I found out I hadn't enough material to build this(the aim always being to use recycled parts as much as possible)and one arm just didn't look right.
So,enter Version 2:up to the medium size ball it's the same as V1,the two wooden arms are replaced by the arms of a record player stylus.With the advantage that they have a nice bend.

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