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Title: A Robot Making a Zen Garden Post by: Ryan Martis on March 22, 2009, 12:48:11 PM This isn't a sandbox with a marble in it. Sysyphus V, a kinetic sculpture by Bruce Shapiro looks like a Zen Garden. But instead of a buddhist monk carefully raking gravel, it's an autonomous steel sphere carefully crawling over and over, making polar geometric shapes that can best be described as iterative lilies or stars. A magnet on an arm on a two axis plotter sites underneath the half-ton set up, and Sisyphus is making its first appearance here, at Maker Faire 2008.
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Title: Re: A Robot Making a Zen Garden Post by: Ryan Martis on March 22, 2009, 12:49:06 PM (http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l336/glamgalz/techzug/imgs/future/robot_zen_gdn_04.jpg)
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Title: Re: A Robot Making a Zen Garden Post by: Ryan Martis on March 22, 2009, 12:49:34 PM (http://i328.photobucket.com/albums/l336/glamgalz/techzug/imgs/future/robot_zen_gdn_06.jpg)
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