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That's tree.

Oita, Japan.

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Isolation Fields. Calgary, Alberta. Photos taken with a circuit-bent 2002 Sony Cybershot camera. (more: The Last Beach)

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Oscillator

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Music my dad wrote when he was in college

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IT SPINS! Handmade electric motor! Entirely out of wire! They said it couldn't be done, but I have proven -- it merely shouldn't be done!

Photos don't really capture how ridiculously complicated this thing was to build, so I managed to film myself assembling the components too! Very proud of that.

In total, I've been working on this project on and off for roughly two years. This motor is my third version, though I went through something like seven designs of the commutator section (not counting how many failures it took to build a working example of a given design). I'm very proud of getting this to work at all.

Some close-up photos of all the components:

Six-way commutator. As the motor spins, this delivers electricity to only the correct pair of magnets at a time, leaving the other four off.

Magnet coils. I wound these by hand from very thin insulated wire. The center is a spiral of thicker insulated wire (darker orange) that protects the thin stands from the steel core and then wraps around the outside to hold everything in place.

Spring-loaded arms. These deliver electricity from the stationary frame into the rotating axle. They also have to hinge up out of the way or else there's no room to fit the rotor in place during assembly.

All the components laid out together before assembly.

And the full motor in all its glory!

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New Galaxies TM164 (detail) © Peter Solarz

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this is so sick, it's like a combo of chiptune and demo. the creator calls it 'oscilloscope music' and the music is literally what's drawing the images. the whole album fits on a floppy and yet the visualisations are so creative, and for music built around drawing cool shapes, it sounds really good

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Untitled © Peter Solarz

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by nicoles_moments

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Metaphysical Landscapes by Eliot Greenwald Illuminate the Mutuality of All Life

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Berlin, 2024

Photo: Roland Helbig