Now we bring you a museum-quality kinetic sculpture you can enjoy in your home. Sisyphus is a kinetic sculpture that has mesmerized millions of visitors at its permanent installations in museums around the world. This Kickstarter won’t be running forever, so be sure to pledge if you love the sound of the Sisyphus. A metal ball rolls silently through sand, forever creating and erasing beautiful patterns. You might want to find another place to display your coffee table books, though, so as to keep Sisyphus’s designs visible… The Kickstarter products come in three styles: an end table, and two different coffee tables. It’s where the production for Sisyphus will take place. While Shapiro’s original makerspace has since closed its doors, Shapiro and his fellow members opened up what is now Nordeast Makers.

The collaboration and access to tools in Shapiro’s local makerspace helped develop the final design seen today. Like most great Maker Faire projects, it’s centred around a wonderful community. Drawn with an uncared beard and hair, the painted represented an expression of sorrow in the Kings face. Painted with delicate and precise brush strokes, the artist used his impressive skill to portray Sisyphus climbing the mountain with the rock in his backs. I’ve spent the last three years perfecting a home version that’s beautiful, user-friendly, near-silent, and that will run for years. Tiziano Vecelli, also known as Titian, made this magnificent work of art in 1548. It was also unique in another way – I wanted to live with it in my home. No longer tasked with cutting materials to be used in making sculptures, it was the sculpture itself. Of all works I made, Sisyphus stood out – it was my first CNC machine to break out of the studio/shop. Sisyphus- Stunning art/furniture kickstarter (fully funded in the table is a two-motor robot (the “Sisbot”) that moves a magnet which draws a steel ball through the sand. You can think of Sisyphus as a cross between an Etch A Sketch and Spirograph, except this is no toy.

Sisyphus momentarily drowned out the noise and action of the Faire. Sisyphus is truly mesmerising. We learned this first-hand: at Maker Faire New York earlier this month, it captured the attention of not only the Raspberry Pi crew, but also thousands of attendees throughout the weekend. 'Sisyphus', 1548-1549, Italian School, Oil on canvas, 237 cm x 216. While it’s a far cry from his arduous task, the Pi has been used to power Bruce Shapiro’s Sisyphus, a continuous and ever-changing kinetic art piece that creates unique design patterns in sand using a small metal ball. It’s just too bad for him that Raspberry Pi wasn’t around to help. Surely if he had been given the opportunity, Sisyphus would have engineered a way out of his eternal punishment of rolling a boulder up a hill.

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