And now I wonder if there are kinetic sculptures parts CNC plans for purchase somewhere. It would be fun to make a (simpler) one on the Shapeoko, but I guess the outcome would likely be “mmh, so that’s why it took this guy fourty years to master his craft…”.
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Or worse, “mmmh, wouldn’t this be even better with some motors and a controller board…” 
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I have been admiring those creations for quite a while and wish I could afford giant one.
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Just make a wind powered version. If the Florida summer storms were not so insane with 50+ mph wind I would kill to own one.
It’s rated for 90 mph but the amount of flying debris here would murder it.
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Challenge #25, perhaps?
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Or even worse, "Hell, they sell those on eBay for $25, and I’ll have one here tomorrow! 
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Willing to bet you that within a week you’d have found the cheap eBay $25 one didn’t work properly and had started making better replacement parts on your Shapeoko
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And the first ten lines of David C. Roy’s website mention exactly that. Some people apparently received “wood scraps”, lol.
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This gentleman also does kinetic sculptures, and sells plans, with DXF format available.
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The Angels said “how much creativity should me give him” and God answered yes!!
I would love to have a day with this chap and his design process and philosophy, amazing use of materials. Thanks for sharing
Jon
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I’m fascinated with these kinetic energy wall art pieces. If anyone comes across any cnc plans online, please post. I’ve been searching, but obviously in the wrong places.
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Did you have a look at that link Bill posted ?
There is (obviously) a limited choice but those plans are affordable and I’ve been wanting to try one.
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I don’t consider myself a very advanced CNC user, but I always wanted to build one of these, so I ordered a plan (Cephied) from Derek (I was never interested in the amount of effort to scroll saw one). I couldn’t figure out how to import it to full size, but Will described the process using other software I never heard of. Finally I realized what downloaded was in metric, so I upscaled the files by 25.4 and the parts were the perfect size.
There are many parts needed, but Derek provides a complete list including McMaster-Carr part numbers to make it easy. Some are quite specialized and the price added up to more than I expected, but everything went together really well and the finished project works really well. The price of Baltic birch plywood is pretty high now too. There is a bit of balancing, tweaking etc. but he has good troubleshooting guides.
It worked well enough that I purchased a more complicated plan (Merlot) and am building it now. I have run all the CNC parts and again, they came out great. Fun projects!
Art
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Please share some pictures, would love to see what you made!
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Please share some pictures, would love to see what you made!
I second this request. I would love to see how they came out.
I’ll try. My experitise on the computer is even less than on the CNC.
The system won’t let me download a video, but here’s a picture. You can see that I mounted it on a plywood backer board rather than directly to the wall so I can move it around. There are 2 separate moving wheels. Each randomly change direction and speed so the view is constantly changing. Derek has a video on his site.
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Thanks Julien, I contacted Derek Hugger via facebook and had a couple questions I needed answered before purchasing a set of plans/files from him. I’ll post my results if I follow through. - Psul
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Nice job, he does design some incredible pieces.
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