The 31st annual da Vinci Days Graand Kinetic Challenge returns to Corvallis for a two-day human-powered sculpture race over land, sand, mud and water July 20-21. Read more at https://www.hereisoregon.com/events/2024/07/kooky-contraptions-will-race-in-corvallis-for-the-graand-kinetic-challenge.html?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=dhfacebook&utm_content=app.dashhudson.com/here-is-oregon/library/media/430057426 | Here Is Oregon

KINETIC SCULPTURE RACE returns for it's 23rd year on SATURDAY, MAY 6 with the theme "Everyday People"! 👥 🏁 Ordinary people will race their EXTRAordinary human-powered, all-terrain, artful contraptions through 15 miles of Baltimore streets and neighborhoods, traversing all obstacles of sand, mud, and deep harbor waters! We're less than TWO WEEKS AWAY—don't miss your chance to see Baltimore's most stupefying spectacle LIVE and IN-PERSON! ... Thank you to Courageous Studios for capturing this inc

Scrap Metal Kinetic Sculpture: a bent spring becomes a coupled harmonic oscillator with two modes of oscillation, one along a horizontal direction and one at an angle. As the kinetic energy trades back and forth between these two modes the end of the spring traces out a Lissajous curve (revealed by a white LED) which gets smaller in size each cycle as friction dissipates energy from the system. The full beauty of this motion is captured by recording the light traced using the Slow Shutter Cam Ap