Hand-Cranked Inspirations

This is a very rough sourcebook of links to inspirations for making hand-cranked mechanisms.

• Casey Curran

• Alexander Calder

  1. jump to 3:08 https://vimeo.com/438664216

  2. https://www.wikiart.org/en/alexander-calder/crank-driven-mobile-1932

  3. https://calder.org/works/standing-mobile/double-arc-and-sphere-1932/

• Arthur Ganson

  1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVqYFcr7T0g

• Chris McCullen (more mechanical, but contemporary hand-cranked)

  1. https://vimeo.com/user5678716

  2. A53: https://vimeo.com/36329287

• Charka manual spinning wheel

  1. promoted by Mahatma Gandhi

  2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinning_wheel#Charkha

  3. see the peti charkha portable compact charkha, or book charkha

  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lady_yarn_in_a_Charkha_in_Bangalore.webm

  5. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWevFxJC418

  6. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DbwFPNm4Sg

  7. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVA-sHxWrZU

• Reuben Margolin

  1. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nSqy_KIOicY

  2. https://www.youtube.com/@reubenmargolin/videos

• Zimoun

  1. https://zimoun.net/ (jump to 18:25, 20:12 for the cotton balls)

  2. https://vimeopro.com/bitforms/zimoun/video/68064935