My girlfriend and I spent the last weekend building this kinetic sculpture for our apartment wall. It's heavily based on Reuben Margolin's TED talk that I watched nearly 10 years ago and am still inspired by to this day! You can check out his talk here: https://youtu.be/D2HF-1xjpP8?t=383
0:00 Demo
0:32 Second Angle
1:08 Progress pics
UPDATE:
@Manon Bricole pointed out in a comment that this sculpture isn't quite a sine wave and kindly provided a more accurate formula for the shape of the wave. I created this desmos graph to illustrate the differences between the two: https://www.desmos.com/calculator/s0gvxuz9ny