The Gyrovalkyrie, a variation of the Huffyphonic Gyrobanshee, which is a musical instrument made of a bicycle wheel with the spokes cut out, and replaced by guitar strings. An electric guitar pickup is mounted over the strings, and it is amplified by an electric guitar amplifier, the amplifier’s speaker is mounted underneath the apparatus. This […]
Slouchy
Slouchy’s original name was “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, after Yeat’s poem “The Second Coming”, but that name sounded so pretentious that I just truncated it. Slouchy is made mainly from perforated galvanized steel “plumber’s tape”. It has a little speaker in the back of the cone which plays a little sequence of a dinosaur growling (the […]
Windmill that Cuts Itself Down
This piece is, I think about 10 years old, but it’s still pretty cool. It’s made of scrap wood, bottlecaps, wire hangers, paperclips, tin cans, and a couple of spent 0.30 caliber rifle shells. As the blades turn, they drive a mechanism that converts the rotary motion into a reciprocating motion, driving a hacksaw blade […]
