Description
Build a hand-cranked kinetic sculpture: turn the crank and a row of slats rises and falls as a rolling ocean wave. Every cam is calculated so the wave is a true travelling sine. Watch your machine run in the animated 3D preview before you cut a single part.
Make it yours
- 8–32 slats, ½ to 3 waves across, wave height 10–40 mm
- Curl, round or flat wave crests
- Your name engraved on the front panel, with engraved sea waves, in 7 fonts
- Preview in wood or acrylic, for example basswood with ocean-blue acrylic slats
- Show mechanismx-ray view: watch the helical camshaft drive every slat
Engineered to work
- Square shaft laminated from two strips of your material, so no dowels need buying
- Offset cams with spacers; flat slat feet ride the cams for a perfect sine motion
- Slats slide in two slotted guide plates; tab-and-slot frame; crank with knob and a collar
- Every cam and slat is engraved with its number, with each cam's number on its high side
- Every configuration is simulated through a full turn: slats never jam or drop out, cams clear the frame
- Kerf compensation, 1:1 mm files, auto-nested on 300×300, 400×300, 600×400 sheets or your xTool S1 / P2 / M1 bed
Assembly
- Frame: end plates into the base, guides and panels into the end plates, then glue.
- Glue the two shaft strips into a square rod and thread on collar, cam 1, spacer, cam 2…
- Drop the slats in by number, fit the crank, add a little wax, and turn.
Red lines cut, blue engraves. A step-by-step README comes with every download.
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