Mechanical sculptures

[aeh5040]

Just a few things I've been playing around with...

[DLuders]

These are cool! The torus ring is turning itself inside-out like a Moebius Strip. The globular octahedron sculpture is like a Christmas ornament! I like how you use the Lego solar panel -- maybe the e-Motor can keep time like a sundial.

[Zerobricks]

These really are great! Love them!

[Lost_In_Noise]

Great work, always nice to see someone do something else but building with Technic. Also, nice use of the differential in the rotating ring thing.

[hrontos]

Really nice. I like them. Excelent way to show art of technic also to people, which are not fans of working machines or fast cars.

[Carsten Svendsen]

These are awesome! Especially the first one

[legomuppet9]

I think that the first one is the best and looks very intriguing, do u think that it is possible to make a smaller version of this?

[aeh5040]

Thanks all for the encouragement!

Lost_In_Noise: Thanks! Actually there's no differential, just two back-to-back turntables.

lego muppet9: A smaller one definitely should possible, but tricky. The technic frames seemed perfect for the purpose, which is why I chose this scale. Fitting everything in to the driving section at the bottom was also challenging, so making that part smaller would certainly require some thought...

[mahjqa]

Very nice work. The rotating rig is my favourite. As for the chain, were you inspired by this?

Edited November 26, 2012 by mahjqa

[Front]

Great use of Technic. Building a complete vehicle or similar is too complicated for me, but I feel very inspired to make such interesting mechanical sculptures like you've done here. But it will surely take some time to come up with anything that reach a similar level

[dikkie klijn]

These are amazing, so creative

[Hopey]

These are awesome, I love the idea of simply exploring what's possible, in a 'because it's there' kind of way.

Just thinking out loud here, because I don;t have the parts to do it myself. I'm looking at the way the red parts move relative to the adjacent ones. Two of its edges remain parallel to those in the next one clockwise, while the other two remain parallel to those in the next one anticlockwise. The parallel edges are closest to each other as they pass through the centre, and farthest apart as they pass they outside edge.

Do you think you could you attach some kind of scissor linkages to each pair of red parts, such that it folds up just small enough to fit through as it goes through the centre, and opens up as it passes the outside?

It may be too much; you may be approaching the limits of the friction already. Just a thought.

Keep it up, I'd love to see more of these. You could make some very inspired GBC modules, methinks.

[Lauris]

Really creative! My favourite is the first

Looking forward to more sculptures

[grohl]

Awesome stuff.

[kieran]

Number 1 is my favourite as well, really nice work

[aeh5040]

Very nice work. The rotating rig is my favourite. As for the chain, were you inspired by this?

Yes, the chain one was inspired by exactly this. (Arthur Ganson's other sculptures are also well worth checking out). I tried for a while to send the chain upward, like this, but found it too tricky.

Do you think you could you attach some kind of scissor linkages to each pair of red parts, such that it folds up just small enough to fit through as it goes through the centre, and opens up as it passes the outside?

It may be too much; you may be approaching the limits of the friction already. Just a thought.

Keep it up, I'd love to see more of these. You could make some very inspired GBC modules, methinks.

That's a great idea! I believe this could be made to work. There's actually very little friction. The more delicate point is that the internal ring of axles needs to be held rigidly in place, and to hold up under the weight. So adding too much more weight is not a good idea. But I think your "scissors" could be done!

A few GBC ideas are indeed in the pipeline...

[DLuders]

aeh5040 posted this

of his Lego Technic Rotating Knot:

[Lost_In_Noise]

If this isn't art, I want to know what is...