Flickr member yamamo2 and his dad built this high performance double pendulum (aka chaos machine) and dang – can this thing get down or what? Instant physics party anytime! unless of course you happen to close and catch a stray pendulum to the noggin … physics party foul, indeed :(
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seriously! Attach a little LED on the end of that thing and get us some long exposure shots of it in motion! I want to see the trail :D
What about this?
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/DoublePendulum/
Ask and ye shall receive:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DPLE.jpg
Picture from Wikipedia.org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DPLE.jpg
jasper, click the wiki link for exactly that :)