Art

[Michael]

I'm posting some inventions, past and present. I'd love to see others ideas that didn't work that have now become art or just pieces sitting around.

This first image is a perpetual motion attempt and some years old. Of course it didn't work so now it sits nicely decorating my table.

This second one is a waterwheel design. The dark areas are fiberglass resin with a blue pigment. The clear parts are square shaped plastic tubing. I discovered that to make intricate parts from fiberglass you don't need to make elaborate molds. You can make the parts flat and then warm them in the oven. When they are hot enough they become like wobbly rubber, and you can shape them anyway you want to and once it cools it becomes as before. When I told the guys at fibertec, the place where I bought my supplies they said Really? This design didn't work so I then made another variation from a small amount of resin and kevlar, which of course also didn't work.

This last image is the first part I designed and tested for my new machine. I won't explain what it is but you will see it on my working prototype. The weight laying against it is a weight for the machine. The relationship of size is purely coincidental and irrelevent.

Michael

ps if you don't see these images right away I've emailed them to Scott and have asked him to paste them up.

[ken_behrendt]

Very nicely fabricated stuff, Michael. I'm very impressed with your early PM machine that looks like a miniature windmill. Seems to have some sort of a chain drive to an eccentric flywheel. Beautifully crafted...too bad it did not work.

Yes, I think failed PM machines could qualify as an artform. Some are so intricately made...almost like antique clock movements.

ken

[MC]

Michael, I like thisÂ…

There really should be a forum named “Up for Grabs” or “Failed attempts” or whatever, that are past ideas that is abandoned by its inventors and up for grabs…

MC

[coylo]

Personally, I think that modern Art is all a load of bollocks.

But I think there is beauty in a constructed PM machine failure. They can capture the imagination. The beauty is not in its form or aesthetics but in that they were built for a cause, a reason and although it failed I still think it should/could be respected for what it tried to achieve .............the impossible.

I never kept any of my failures, but I do keep a digital photo archive to record whats been tried and tested.

Nice work Michael.

[Michael]

Thanks for the compliment Ken. There were more pieces meant to be a part of it that were finished, some weren't. I kept the other parts off because it interfered with the aesthetics of the "art" piece. This machine shifted weights around.

Coylo, I am and artist and would tend to agree with you, but in the vein of certain modern art pieces really not having an intention behind them. That the artist has left up to the viewers interpretation. Of course all art has some kind of intention behind it but I don't like loose interpretive work. I'll be posting more up but not everything. I've thrown a lot out that as you have also said wasn't worth keeping.

Mike

[PIMAN]

An outdated design. Built it. So close, but yet so far!

PIMAN

[Madmax]

There is my last design (I named it perpetuum stabile) :-)
Maybe someone will do it better.

[jim_mich]

perpetuum stabile

Beautiful construction! How long did it take you to make it?

[Madmax]

Hi Jim!

It took me about 2 months (with a little help of my brother who is also a passionate). I used parts from my former design. Now these parts are being used in my latest machine, wchich is not finished yet. This new design is looking like the Bessler's machine and we hope will work as well :-)

[ken_behrendt]

Yes...quite beautiful and exquisite. This one belongs in a technology museum! Bessler would have been proud to have built something as elaborate as this. I think, according to Maschinen Tractate, that he had an early phase where he was using cords to try to maintain the c.o.g. on the descending side of the wheel...

ken

[Vic Hays]

My first attempt at free energy included a homopolar generator. De Palma and Tewari had me thinking there was a possibility. I decided after some experimentation that this may be a novel type of generator but it probably will not go over unity. The one novel feature of this generator pictured is that it is double and has a winding between the two to increase the voltage. Notice the commutator in the forground. The magnets are two huge speaker magnets from a speaker manufacturer that I was doing some work for.

[Vic Hays]

Next I decided that maybe magnetic motors were the key. The little motor below had me worried that it might run away because it had no governor. Not a problem. It does tend to rotate, but only part of a revolution then it locks up.

[Vic Hays]

My latest magnetic motor. I like the principle and I think it has some merit. It will require a more sophisticated design, however. The mass of metal overwhelms the magnetic flux in this motor, but it does tend to rotate. I have a design in mind but I want to do a gravity motor next.

[coylo]

Here's one for ya's.

Very Simple, but not the smooth operator that I'd hoped for.
It was very resistive to rotation when going vertical, even with no weights attached.
It's self explanatory once you check out the pictures. You'll know what I was trying to do.

Hi Vic, you've got a few nice paper-weights there..........just kiddin'.

[coylo]

This was an alternative construction.
It's easier on the eye.

Remember.........that there is a 3rd dimension to play in! (and to fail in)