Mesmerizing videos of curve-drawing machines

These are a lot of fun. I especially like the complex circle machine that draws a straight line.

I have built clocks using the Lissajous method of drawing circles on an oscilloscope. There’s analog electronics that makes the sine and cosine waves that comprise the circles; the microcomputer just positions them and controls the enabling of each octant. Lines are made of cosine waves.

I’m working now on getting it back into production.

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