Daniel Busby

Tinkerings of a backyard scientist

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A Moveable Feast takes on CicLAvia

22nd April. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

We took A Moveable Feast on a ride through Los Angeles for CicLAvia.  I decided to document this ride with a time-lapse camera.  I’ll let the video tell the story:

An Intimate Look Under the Tablecloth

17th May. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

I whipped up a video of the engineering magic behind A Moveable Feast. Enjoy!

Taking it to the Streets

1st May. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

With all of the different elements of the Kinetic Sculpture in place it was time to do some laps around the parking lot to see what would break.  We’ve literally got lots of moving parts, so it’s important to see what we need to fix.  It’s much easier to repair a broken spoke in the …read more

Tidying up the details before Showtime

1st May. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

We had only had 14 days until the Doo Dah Parade, and we had a long way to go, so we stepped things up into high gear.  I started working every day and recruited as many helpers each day as possible.  I didn’t take time out of my day to blog, as I needed all …read more

Gliding Our Way to the Finish

12th April. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

We’ve been working two or three days a week on this thing.  This means we’ve been making a lot of progress, but I haven’t had the time to blog about it much.  Let me see if I can catch things up to something remotely current… We finally got started on the driveshaft.  We welded it …read more

Framing Begins

26th February. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

After hacking up the bicycle frames to distill them into just the parts that we’re going to use, it was time to start welding the basics of the frame together.  I purchased 120′ of 1 1/2″ x 1/16″ wall chromoly tubing.  Alloy 4130 for those keeping score at home.  I’ve also got some 3/4″ tube …read more

Sketching Up and Hacking Up

12th February. By admin. Posted in Kinetic Sculpture.

We had a vague idea of how things are supposed to go together.  But, eventually, we’ll have to actually do it.  I took some measurements of the parts I was planning to use and started to put them into Google’s Sketchup.  It has a little bit of a learning curve, but the tutorials were helpful …read more

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