Meditation #3 - Arthur Ganson

My first machines were all assembled with tin-lead solder, not knowing that this soft solder was structurally unsound and that in time, any part under significant tension would fall apart. Early fragile machines built this way contained many playful mechanical ideas that could no longer be appreciated because the machines themselves were no longer operative. The three meditation pieces are re-creations of particular ideas that I loved and wished to see again.

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[maxikin]

this is really neat

like a rude goldberg invention that doesn't end with an explosion

why is it called meditation?

[dreamingmachines]

Check out (more info) by the subscribe button. It gives the story behind the piece. I considered this to be a meditation on the earlier piece.

[PerspectiveEngineer]

it's working.

[SASunDog]

What solder do you use now?

[ItsaUFOduh]

i love this, plus this almost seems like it could have some practical use, but i can't quite think of what