Bike Part Spirograph

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I am descended from 5,000 generations of tool-using primates. Also, I went to college and stuff. I am a long-time contributor to MAKE magazine and makezine.com. My work has also appeared in ReadyMade, c't – Magazin für Computertechnik, and The Wall Street Journal.

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February 29th, 2012 8

Spotted at the recent Cedar Rapids Mini Maker Faire by Steve Hoefer. Looks like a piece of hardboard with a circular hole in it, lined with bike chain, to make an improvised “ring gear,” with variously-drilled chain gears and sprockets that roll around inside it to guide the pens. A similar idea was published by Instructables user hunrichs back in 2008, but I don’t think this is the same maker, and I don’t think Steve managed to get his or her name. Can somebody help us out? Who made this?

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Luis says:

February 29th, 2012 at 9:07 am

I was there (http://www.flickr.com/photos/luiserodriguez/6933152141/in/set-72157629467744527/) and it was form the folks at Art Bikes Vintage & Custom. http://newboczech.info/new-bohemia I was looking for them as well. They setup and I didn’t see them again, I want them for Maker Faire KC! Those are our info cards in the shot. :)

Sean Ragan says:

February 29th, 2012 at 9:33 am

Thank you!
Steve Hoefer (@Grathio) says:

February 29th, 2012 at 10:04 am

Thanks Luis!
(And thanks for making the trip to Cedar Rapids. It was great to meet you and all the other KC folks!)

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Bike Part Spirograph

By Sean Michael Ragan