What is that thing called?

osirus2020 · 12-29-2011, 04:55 PM

Okay, so I was younger we had this cool drawing/art set that used a series of different gears/sprockets to create patterns when you used the tip of a pen or pencil to manipulate the apparatus. The parts were flat pieces of plastic and (if I remember correctly) brightly colored. There were interchangeable gears so you could change the pattern.

It's not an etch a sketch, nor a gyroscope, but in that ballpark except arts and crafts. But an etch a sketch/gyroscope hybrid does sound pretty cool.

I did come across this:

Nifty toy I also had as a youngin'.

deadhead94 · 12-29-2011, 05:03 PM

spirograph.

I have one

its in a box with a mr potato head.

osirus2020 · 12-29-2011, 06:11 PM

I should probably get one they are really cool. Thanks!

AnimalLover420 · 12-29-2011, 07:22 PM

OMFG I loved my Spirograph! I came across a Lite Brite at a thrift store for $1 today and was *this close* to buying it.

kitch · 12-29-2011, 07:41 PM

how could you let a $1 lite brite get away?

AnimalLover420 · 12-29-2011, 07:54 PM

If I allowed myself to collect every item that made me happy, my house would probably be filled to the brim with toys, craft supplies, vintage kitsch, and probably a shitload of books too. That was me attempting to practice self control.

kitch · 12-29-2011, 08:01 PM

Vintage kitch is awesome. Take this classic post from 2002.

Quote:

Originally Posted by kitchkinet

you're gay

simply extraordinary!

Roach · 12-29-2011, 08:32 PM

Quote:

If I allowed myself to collect every item that made me happy, my house would probably be filled to the brim with toys, craft supplies, vintage kitsch, and probably a shitload of books too.

I'm sure we knew each other in another life.

**Home Wrecker** · 12-29-2011, 10:23 PM

Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity?

Think about it

Captain Cannabis · 12-29-2011, 10:31 PM

its called spirograph

i got one in istanbul from a turkish guy selling them on the street for 1e

Roach · 12-29-2011, 10:44 PM

I had one long long ago.

about the same time string art and painting on velvet was all the rage.

Cambium · 12-31-2011, 07:48 AM

Lee Valley tools has it as a hypotrochoid art set, page 9 in the christmas catalogue

Lee Valley Tools - Online Catalog

Kompressor · 12-31-2011, 09:40 AM

Ah spirograph, how i miss you all of a sudden.

~1~ · 12-31-2011, 10:25 AM

SUPER SPIROGRAPH 1970 tv commercial - YouTube

Kompressor · 12-31-2011, 10:32 AM

lol, ah life pre-internet...

Roach · 12-31-2011, 10:38 AM

just not the same

adventure · 12-31-2011, 12:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by deadhead94

spirograph.

I have one

its in a box with a mr potato head.

I have a feeling you kind of look like Mr Potato head, a skinny dweeby version

**Mafoo** · 12-31-2011, 12:50 PM

i picture deadhead as a really hairy version of carl from aqua teen hunger force.

ya, hairrier than carl.

adventure · 12-31-2011, 01:04 PM

I don't think he has enough testosterone to grow any body hair except a creepy mex-tache.

Roach · 12-31-2011, 01:27 PM

Quote:

i picture deadhead as

12-29-2011, 07:22 PM	#4 (permalink)
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AnimalLover420 Love Junkie Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: US Posts: 2,442 Thanks: 716 Thanked 1,067 Times in 448 Posts	If I allowed myself to collect every item that made me happy, my house would probably be filled to the brim with toys, craft supplies, vintage kitsch, and probably a shitload of books too. That was me attempting to practice self control. __________________ ****************************************

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Home Wrecker material boy Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Ishmaelia Posts: 4,776 Thanks: 1,625 Thanked 853 Times in 421 Posts	Did you know that there's a direct correlation between the decline of Spirograph and the rise in gang activity? Think about it __________________ Mr. Pink: You kill anybody? Mr. White: A few cops. Mr. Pink: No real people? Mr. White: Just cops.

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Captain Cannabis safety word: more Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: m.i.a. Posts: 13,922 Thanks: 2,705 Thanked 3,174 Times in 1,812 Posts	its called spirograph i got one in istanbul from a turkish guy selling them on the street for 1e __________________ fuck the monkeys

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Roach Victoria Aut Mors Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7,184 Thanks: 2,372 Thanked 1,987 Times in 1,509 Posts	I had one long long ago. about the same time string art and painting on velvet was all the rage. __________________ לזיין את הקופים

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Cambium Old School Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 179 Thanks: 35 Thanked 66 Times in 38 Posts	Lee Valley tools has it as a hypotrochoid art set, page 9 in the christmas catalogue Lee Valley Tools - Online Catalog

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Kompressor Voice of Reason Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Illinois Posts: 8,361 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3,069 Times in 1,634 Posts	Ah spirograph, how i miss you all of a sudden. __________________ Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. -H. Bergson

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Roach Victoria Aut Mors Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 7,184 Thanks: 2,372 Thanked 1,987 Times in 1,509 Posts	just not the same Attached Images __________________ לזיין את הקופים

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Mafoo nice daze Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: the anguish of anticipated transformation Posts: 5,975 Thanks: 3,776 Thanked 2,652 Times in 1,698 Posts	i picture deadhead as a really hairy version of carl from aqua teen hunger force. ya, hairrier than carl. __________________ PLUR For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return

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