Markhacks creates cardboard pendulums and such. Here's one with a bunch of bothersome magnets underneath the weight.
I made another pendulum of cardboard. Using multiple magnets with reversed polarity causes chaotic motion.
Chaotic pendulum wanders field of magnets
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