Wooly Willy Table

Step 11 Enjoy!

The last step is to play with it and make some crazy faces!

We've been drawing a bunch already and have barely scratched the surface of what's possible...some of our most notable works appear below.

Comments

[tat2duck]

Two safety points I would make...
Make sure the glass is safety glass or acrylic glass if children are involved. Also consider attaching the 'pen' to the table with a cord. Nice job otherwise.

[adamazing]

Not just if children are involved. Otherwise you're only a knocked over beer bottle or a dropped Wii controller away from glass and possibly iron filing hell.


My first idea for an improvement would be to have interchangeable pictures so you could swap out Woolly Willy for Hairy Mary or a forest scene with trees with bare branches or...


Or even interchangeable contained units so you could swap out the Woolly Willy for a maze with raised walls and a ball bearing or a small blob of filings or ferro-fluid?

Great idea by the way and great execution.

[mslaynie]

This is such a fantastic idea!! Makes me think about different ways to use this concept to make a drawing board/table. This would be a hit at a party, too... I can imagine all the laughter now!

Also, making multiple magic pens was inspired. The only improvement I can suggest is perhaps adding a drawer underneath to store the pens in when they aren't in use. Otherwise, this is such a brilliant idea! Love it!

[runndis26]

 This is a great idea! We are going to try to make one for my son in our game room. Thanks for adding this.

[Asmodeous]

Awesome!