[Nick] is working on a prototype of a coffee table sand plotter that draws patterns in sand a lot like a zen rock garden. [Nick]’s zen rock garden uses a magnet to draw a ball bearing across ...

The purpose of a Zen garden, those stylized landscapes created by painstakingly placing rocks and raking gravel ... and the “ZenXY” sand plotter was the result. There isn’t a build log ...

Alta Vista Botanical Gardens, located at 1270 Vale Terrace Dr., will hold a ribbon-cutting ceremony from 10:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Thursday to commemorate the opening of its stacked stone zen garden.