Like most great Maker Faire projects, it’s centred around a wonderful community. I’ve spent the last three years perfecting a home version that’s beautiful, user-friendly, near-silent, and that will run for years. It was also unique in another way – I wanted to live with it in my home. No longer tasked with cutting materials to be used in making sculptures, it was the sculpture itself. Of all works I made, Sisyphus stood out – it was my first CNC machine to break out of the studio/shop.

Sisyphus- Stunning art/furniture kickstarter (fully funded in can think of Sisyphus as a cross between an Etch A Sketch and Spirograph, except this is no toy. Sisyphus momentarily drowned out the noise and action of the Faire. Sisyphus is truly mesmerising. We learned this first-hand: at Maker Faire New York earlier this month, it captured the attention of not only the Raspberry Pi crew, but also thousands of attendees throughout the weekend. While it’s a far cry from his arduous task, the Pi has been used to power Bruce Shapiro’s Sisyphus, a continuous and ever-changing kinetic art piece that creates unique design patterns in sand using a small metal ball. It’s just too bad for him that Raspberry Pi wasn’t around to help. Surely if he had been given the opportunity, Sisyphus would have engineered a way out of his eternal punishment of rolling a boulder up a hill.

Sisyphus table clock