Algal bloom pendant against reflective black background
Closeup of the polygonal network of the radiolaria pendant
Full view of radiolaria pendant with new chain
With the rising cost of silver, I’m transitioning most of my stainless pendants to stainless steel chains. It gave me an excuse to spend a nice afternoon re-photographing them.
We're starting to work on an art installation along the pacific northwest coast so I spent some time digging into my tidepool / PNW photos for natural pattern inspiration
3 gold folium necklaces on a black background. each has a different shape and skeletal structure
3 pairs of gold folium earrings on a black background. each has a different shape and interior perforation pattern
I have added a new batch of one of a kind necklaces and earrings to our shop. Folium pieces are inspired by leaves and each has a unique shape and vein structure. They are available in stainless steel and gold-plated stainless.
I think we are going to have to rent a scissor lift. it's just too high to get with our A frame ladder. I'm considering these beam clamps now: meisterelite.com/products/mei...
We’re a little bit worried about the cable being able to intersect with the fan blades if it swings, but coming directly down from the beam certainly simplifies things
Photo of the studio. the pink line indicates where we would add a cable
We need to add a way to suspend sculptures from the ceiling of the studio. The span is about 16.5 ft. The options we’ve come up with:
1) run a cable from a stud to the steel column
2) add a cable hang directly down from the roof joist (not sure if it’s OK to drill a hole in the joist)
We get missing piece requests frequently but usually they aren’t ones we have found (so we make them from scratch)
The fact that nobody has ever asked for most of these pieces makes me wonder what proportion of the puzzles we sell actually get assembled?
Hand holding a small Ziploc bag dated December 4, 2025 containing a single blue puzzle piece
Sometimes we find random puzzle pieces and don’t know what puzzle they go to. So we stick them in a little baggie with the date on it. Someone finally wrote us asking for a missing piece and it’s actually one that we have in the bin!
It’s fun to have new toys, but difficult to find time to use them
Stainless steel a little thinner than 1 mm
We got our new fiber lasercutter up and running finally! here it is making its first test cuts in stainless steel
you can view Alexey's incredible snowflake photos on flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/chaot...
a field of round wooden puzzles with macro photos of real snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov
For our latest Patreon reward, we turned photos of real snowflakes by Alexey Kljatov into puzzles. He had so many great photos we used a different snowflake for each puzzle. If you want one join our Patreon: patreon.com/nervoussystem
We've just made our largest custom jigsaw puzzle yet with ~4000 wood pieces! This is going to be insanely difficult to assemble
closeup of a 2 color octopus 3d print make on our original makerbot machine from a lifetime ago
It's been years since we had a functioning FDM printer. We primarily 3Dprint on a formlabs or send things out for SLS nylon printing. I'm considering getting a bambu P2S combo. It seems FDM printing has dramatically improved in the past 10 years. Anyone have opinions on which machine I should buy?
Looks like it’s right at home with those lasercut polyhedra
Just got this piece made by @nervousjessica.bsky.social and @nervousjesse.bsky.social and it's delightful, as their work always is.
Final call for Christmas orders. If you order today select UPS 2nd day or next day service. I will ship it Monday morning n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/
Our pop up puzzle display in Art of Play’s magic theater space
View of the main shop area
We drove into Brooklyn in a snowstorm yesterday to do a pop up at one of our favorites shops, the Art of Play. What a pleasure to be in a carefully curated shop full of weird wonders and games. Definitely recommend a visit if you are in NYC but they do have a website too www.artofplay.com
We were just talking about that. I definitely think my kids have a skewed vision of what’s normal in terms of your parents just making stuff all the time for you. I doubt the things we make are better, but they’re certainly more tailored to our kids specific interests.
My 4 year old’s new obsession is playing with hat tiles
Reaction Möbius pendant is a Mobius strip with an embossed reaction diffusion pattern
Me wearing the necklace every single day
There’s still time to order Nervous System jewelry (and puzzles!) for holiday delivery. My daily necklace is the Reaction Möbius Necklace in 3D-printed stainless steel. It's virtually indestructible and doesn't tarnish n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/product...
If you aren't familiar with them, Art of Play is a really cool toy and game shop for all ages AND they have a performance space for magicians too www.artofplay.com/pages/brooklyn
It’s been very fun to noodle around with just making intricate shapes without having to worry about making them a functional object
Brooklyn friends: Nervous System is popping up this weekend at the Art of Play shop with 4 other NY makers from 11-7pm on Sunday. Come say hi and shop mathematical puzzles, sculptures and jewelry www.instagram.com/p/DR0a8Oljyr...
Earth Puzzle
Giant Geode puzzle
Ocean Tapestry puzzle with art by Franz Anthony
Neuron Puzzle with art by David Goodsell
Big jigsaw puzzle with 400+ wooden pieces and tons of shaped whimsies. The Earth Infinity Puzzle is our hardest puzzle n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/line.ph...
a family photo puzzle with plant and animal whimsies
A Custom Puzzle: turn your favorite photo into a wood puzzle. You can choose the shape, cut style, size and whimsy pieces n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/customPuzzle/
radiozoa necklace
reaction shell earrings
silver florescence ring
silver 1-layer twist ring
Sterling silver jewelry cast from 3D-printed wax inspired microscopic life, flowers, and shells n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/shopAll...
spectre tile puzzle
small lizard infinity puzzle
infinite galaxy puzzle
flummoxagon
Mathematical Jigsaw Puzzles: Puzzles with the topology of a Klein bottle, Spectre Tiles, tessellating lizards, hexagons! n-e-r-v-o-u-s.com/shop/search_...
