Crafty Cretin - Things I made Vol. 3

Just gravity and physics. My hand just pulled down on the body… the way the strings are attached and the pieces are balanced are what allow for the flappin’. It’s not new at all, nothing I came up with. After much searching, I finally found a youtube vid that helped me tremendously on getting the balance mechanics…

Please hold…
found it…

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Wow, love it! A friend of mine has a goose sculpture that works this way, he needs to up his game!

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Nice job! Great flying motion!

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Love seeing it in motion! I’ll bet a pterodactyl would work great for this as well—you should do one!

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I’ll have to get it from him - then I will!

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Love the video. It looks so cool with the wings moving.

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I must do a dragon with a cat on its back, like my avatar (my last name is Dragon).

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'Tis already on the agenda! Next week is all flying things and nothing but flying things in the lab.

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Dragons are cool! Nice job!

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Not a new design here… but a new version, as in copper spray paint for the dragon, black spray paint for the base, and fancier chains. The chains are holding up the dragon, but they are not glued or welded… it’s a “tensegrity”* art piece. (*Rabbithole warning!)


Other tensegrity pieces are on the agenda… (along with hundreds of other projects)

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you are definitely a crafty cretin!!! - its MOST excellent!!!

Jonathan

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you inspired me… – in progress.
(he will breath fire (real fire))

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WHOA! Happy to inspire…

And I started working on My version of your Mobile, it will fly above (on a flagpole) and below there will be LED fire torches and the fire breathing dragon as the centerpiece (well, this is my concept) here are pictures of the right wing, I wanted them to be more ‘leathery’ so the are engraved, and scored, and then stained purple.


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Looks scary already. :blush:

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You should see the inside of my refrigerator!

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WHOA! Epic! Can’t wait to see yours in flight!

just an update, started working on the dragon

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Test #1 – FIRE!!!

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AND the other dragon . . .

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