Automatic Zen Garden - DIY Sisyphus Table

I apologize to any real engineers watching... Turn on captions!
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Sable is an automatic kinetic art table made to trace patterns reminiscent of traditional Japanese-style Zen gardens. Or at least, what a five year old thinks a Zen garden is like. Designed and constructed from scratch over a course of three months, Sable employs a CNC XY base to drag a magnetic platform below the top surface. The sand plotter's metal ball then traces any given design as demonstrated in the video. If you still don't get it, its a really crappy version of that famous Kickstarter sand table: Sisyphus. But hey, building it myself meant it was cheap as heck.
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Music:
/ step-by-step
/ mr-miyagi
/ introvert
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Editing & Videography: Larry Jing 2020

[@MrShasulaiman]

Amazing work, looks like You've put in a lot of effort building it, not to mention the time it takes to model in solid works, the result is dope and satisfying, thank you for putting this up on the internet.

[@RelaxumSonos]

Wow, kind of relaxing and calming, thanks for sharing! Easy to fall asleep! :)

[@bopha9276]

Finna be back here when this blows up king

[@Joulespersecond]

Awesome stuff dude - I think you've inspired me to try something like this myself!

[@tootalldan5702]

Nice build and explanation at the end. Shielded cable helps for the limit switch false trigger issue. Good luck with the future.

[@Tiim]

Very nice. And such a hight production quality of your video. Awesome! I just subscribed.

[@Q269]

Great breakdown at the end

[@justinyang7697]

Amazing video!

[@nickrisley8633]

I'm a 'real' engineer and that's a very impressive design-build. Good work!

[@luisantos1986]

Totally subscribed, very good keep on the good work

[@owenhopper14]

Subscribed. This is amazing. And in my opinion makes me wonder why Sisyphus charges such OUTRAGIOUS prices when all the coding, materials and bugs are already worked out. But amazing job, keep it up.

[@aahanghose974]

Very smart!

[@norfolkflyingboyz2404]

Seriously informative. 😀🤙

[@djmjr77]

Very cool!!

[@milkparker4479]

cool. you can convert the geared steppers to bi polar by just cutting the little trace

[@v_urm]

Epic!!!

[@petermuller608]

Very nice build? However, the balls motion is quite jerky. Have you experimented with heavier balls / stronger magnets / less sand?

[@jacquelinepalevich228]

Wow!

[@colinbrush1092]

Rip the mousetrap car

[@user-pd3ib2xy5t]

不错！

[@evazhou]

oooooh nice

[@gabrielceolato2]

很好！！！

[@markrolandmakes]

Nice build Larry! I've built a sand table myself and during my research process I created a pretty extensive list of other sand table builds on TH-cam. I've added your video to my playlist at th-cam.com/play/PLvB5haKJbU3gAIbd7pgwSGlissy1iIUOg.html.

Fascinated work! Use technology to build some artificial is very nice.

[@SuperElwira]

wooooowwww!!!!!

[@subrisubrika5652]

How does it sound live? Are the motors loud?

[@larryjing]

It's actually fairly quiet! Most of the noises come from the vibrations in the frame as well as the sound of the ball rolling, not the motors.

[@subrisubrika5652]

Sweet will you be posting the how to video and g code to make it ourselves?

[@subrisubrika5652]

I'd like to make a large one that will work as a desk for my computer

[@dawjas2520]

any stl?

[@petermuller608]

The limit switches you are using can also be operated in NC mode. I strongly encourage you to use them this way:
1. You will notice a broken or missing connection immediately (not after your desk has torn itself apart, since the closed limit switch does not registered because of the missing connection)
2. They are far less susceptible to interference since a static current is drawn

[@Marcusrichards1]

Piece of cake. I’m going to start making one tomorrow. 🤥

[@lanvinpierre]

can someone dumb this down for me, i want one but my nose started bleeding when he started explaining

[@papawalter8861]

He kinda build a moving structure comparable to a 3d printer using x and z axis (x and y also possible but in my opinion x and z is easier to do). Combining that with a magnet he can control under the table hes able to move the metal ball throught the wood. Its actually using most of the parts you are gonna find in an ender 3 or other 3d printers. For example the stepper motor, boundary mechanism, and other moving parts. Pretty smart way to create something like that with pretty inexpensive and widely available parts. ( I may be wrong with some things so please forgive me lmao)

[@Angelina-vv1lc]

Hello is it possible to order such table from u

[@larryjing]

no

[@jr2090]

Very sex Lawrence keep up the great work 👍

[@sfitz219]

Heh. Caption at 4:38...

[@papawalter8861]

Your 3d printer is poorly lvled and the temp setting arent that good... Just for ur imformation ;)

[@justinfrew5507]

Yep after the coffee I was over it. Wish you actually spoke about what you made, really annoyed

[@larryjing]

Thanks for the feedback; I spoke a bit near the end of the video about some of the build process but if that's not what you're looking for feel free to watch another one of the hundreds of similar videos on this site.

[@Joulespersecond]

@@larryjing I think this guy missed half of the video lol.