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Making Simple Automata
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Designing and making successful automata involves combining materials, mechanisms and magic. Making Simple Automata explains how to design and construct small scale, simple mechanical devices made for fun. Materials such as paper and card, wood, wire, tinplate and plastics are covered along with mechanisms - levers and linkages, cranks and cams, wheels, gears, pulleys, springs, ratchets and pawls. This wonderful book is illustrated with examples throughout and explains the six golden rules for making automata alongside detailed step-by-step projects. Magic - an unanalyzable charm, a strong fascination so that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. Superbly illustrated with 110 colour photographs with examples and detailed step-by-step projects.
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Robert Race has been a full-time maker for more than thirty years. He tries to make things that move in simple but interesting ways, using a wide range of natural, re-used and recycled materials. His work has been widely exhibited and has included automata, kinetic sculpture and moving toys for children and adults. He has been an active member of the British Toymakers Guild since 1991.
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