With using the resources around us, we made a pendulum out of two chairs, a cup and string. It took a few tries to figure out what paint consistently we wanted and found it worked best when it was super liquid-y.
the pendulum made out of chairs, string and a cup.
result
I was actually surprised that the marking were almost dots as I was expecting more of a streamline marking. I almost like this dotting better as it looks more organic, like Meg Rodgers wind drawings rather than the clean and very precise lines of the drawing apparatus by robert howsare. Because we all loved how the marking came out we did some more using different colours, and uses different angles of the pendulum. Here are the results.
I think this machine successfully captured movement from an organic source and creating a geometric markings. The one thing I would do differently is to make a pendulum of a bigger scale and on bigger paper so we could achieve bigger markings.