But not knowing the right words to ask Google didn’t bring worthy information. For months I relentlessly searched for a solution. Straight lines were curved but it moved, I was happy. Fascinating Fulcrums My son circled the dinner table, which was surrounded by the seated guests at yet another dinner party back in our new home on campus. Yay, things moved! But not quite the right way. I came across a few versions of firmware and YouTube helped for getting it on the Mega. It was cheap enough for me to experiment on.įinding firmware was also difficult for me as Ardruino is new to me and I had no direction at the time. After research I luckily came across a mega board with Ramps. The control Rob used was a board he built himself. This was the easy part.įinding out what to do next was rough. I printed parts, laser cut pieces, found additional hardware, and made the bot. I immediately went to work on building our own. He had details of his design and build with a link to his parts. I was looking for something else, 3D printer related and stumbled across Rob Dobson’s site. We also confirmed what we already knew, we needed a sand table. That didn’t work, LOL, but he did invite us to visit his shop if we were ever in town. Tried to talk him into selling just the parts as a kit. There we met Bruce Shaprio and talked with him for a while. This allowed us view the table in person and possibly win one, fingers crossed (we didn’t win). Joining the mailing list proved to be useful as we were sent an invitation to visit their booth at a design convention in NYC.

Since then, we followed Sisyphus Industries online, joined their mailing list, told the tale to family and friends of how we just missed out and sulked over our misfortune. She actually called Sisyphus and asked to be included in the campaign but the rules didn’t allow for that. I first came across the Sisyphus sand table the day after their kickstarter campaign ended. What follows is a summary of my journey to build a “A New Sand Bot”. You have been amazingly informative and fun. I always see the rock gardens with the wooden rake, I always thought they were very peaceful. I wanted it to be more 'art' than anything, an infusion of technology into wood. I’d like to say thank you to everyone that came before me to share their knowledge and experiences. I wanted to build an end table, something that would sit by itself or next to a couch, maybe have a lamp on it.

My sisyphus table