Aaron Bleakley, the inventor of Wild Gears, has been making videos lately. The chill music and hypnotic, rhythmic motions of the gears are almost as therapeutic as drawing designs yourself. This video shows him making a pattern with parallel lines using his clever … Continue reading →
Guest post and photos by Angelika Holz (a.k.a. Freda Fredriksson) from Germany. Now what to do with all these beautiful little circles? You can scan them and if you are familiar with a graphic program like Photoshop you can recolor … Continue reading →
Here is a video that Aaron Bleakley made for his successful Kickstarter campaign to launch Wild Gears in 2013. The final sheets of gears available differ somewhat from the ones you see here, as he worked out the details as … Continue reading →
Nathan Shields (and his kids) have invented a mechanism for making Spirograph pancakes. Nathan is a math teacher as well as a father and an inventor – and quite the artist as well, especially when his chosen medium is pancake batter. … Continue reading →
I’ve made my first two Spirograph videos! I think that the first one especially gives much more instruction on the fine points than other Spirograph videos I’ve seen. Let me know what you think.
Continue reading →Math teacher and YouTube user School of Fish shows us how to derive the formula for the path made by a pen as it traces a hypotrochoid pattern. TRIGGER WARNING: If you were severely traumatized by math in high school, … Continue reading →
A video about drawing mandalas by hand for fun, as an exercise for creativity or self-expression, or as a form of meditation. Any parallels with how you use spirograph? Psst: in the video they’re using Stabilo 88 pens, the kind … Continue reading →
The first post featuring a reader’s spirograph artwork! Raffaella (a.k.a. Norma as she calls herself in our comments) is a fifty-year-old amateur photographer living in Italy. She writes: I’ve liked Spirograph from childhood, but I bought my first Spirograph just … Continue reading →
In case you’ve lost the cover of your old Spirograph set, or the booklet showing the patterns, or maybe you’ll just find this handy, I’ve re-created the pattern guide showing the patterns created by Hole #1 of each of the … Continue reading →
Before delving into this article, you may want to read the Wild Gears page so that you know what it’s about. Differences due to how they are made The manufacturing methods are very different for the two products. Wild Gears … Continue reading →
