http://cache.gawker.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/gizmodo.com.png http://gizmodo.com/tag/sisyphus http://gizmodo.com/tag/sisyphus Here's a video of Sisyphus V drawing shapes in the sand using a magnetic arm on a 2-axis plotter. [Maker Faire]

]]> Mon, 05 May 2008 09:32:29 EDT Brian Lam http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386971&view=rss&microfeed=true This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008. An unrelated but cool Interview with Bruce, by Cool Hunting\, after the jump. [TaoMC at Makers]

]]> Sat, 03 May 2008 17:18:03 EDT Brian Lam http://gizmodo.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=386879&view=rss&microfeed=true