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How to Build Cardboard Automata: A Beginner’s Guide to Designing, Cutting, Folding, and Building Moving Cardboard Machines - Softcover

Redfern, Claire J.

 
9798174358591: How to Build Cardboard Automata: A Beginner’s Guide to Designing, Cutting, Folding, and Building Moving Cardboard Machines

Synopsis

How to Build Cardboard Automata is a beginner-friendly guide to designing and building moving machines from cardboard. It introduces the basic principles behind automata and explains how shafts, axles, cams, cranks, levers, and linkages work together to create movement.

Readers learn how to choose materials and tools, measure and cut cardboard accurately, design mechanisms, build simple automata, create walking machines and animal automata, and combine multiple movements. The book also covers testing, alignment, friction, balance, strengthening, decorating, troubleshooting, and designing original cardboard machines.

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