Making Moving Toys and Automata

This beautiful book draws on Robert Race's extensive collection of traditional moving toys, looking at the ways the makers have achieved remarkable and varied results, often with very limited resources. Each chapter begins by looking at the mechanisms and materials used in some of these traditional moving toys, goes on to consider possible variations, and describes how to make a related moving toy. It continues, from this basis, to develop a design for an automaton. The book shows that designing and making these simple but wonderfully satisfying mechanical devices is fun, and that good results can be achieved in many different ways, using a variety of materials, tools, and equipment.

• Making Simple Automata
• Cabaret Mechanical Movement: Understanding Movement and Making Automata
• Making Things Move Diy Mechanisms for Inventors, Hobbyists, and Artists
• Automata and Mechanical Toys
• Cabaret Mechanical Movement: Understanding Movement and Making Automata by Gary Alexander (2013-06-24)
• Big Book of Gizmos & Gadgets: Expert Advice and 15 All-Time Favorite Projects and Patterns (Fox Chapel Publishing) Step-by-Step Wooden Mechanical Marvels, with a Full-Size Pull-Out Pattern Pack
• Paper Automata: Four Working Models to Cut Out and Glue Together
• 507 Mechanical Movements: Mechanisms and Devices (Dover Science Books)
• Karakuri: How to Make Mechanical Paper Models That Move
• Creative Kinetics: Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood