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Automata utilize clock-work mechanisms to imitate motion. With this amazingly fun and creative kit, you’ll design, make, and experiment with endless varieties of automata of your own, with no glue and no tools!

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  • The New Designing Automata Kit is great value and fantastic quality. No glue or tools are required, and you will learn about simple mechanics using cams and a crank slider mechanism. Many different designs can be made, and the kit used over and over again. Produced in Thailand using chemical-free rubber wood, from sustainable sources.
    Please note: The video below is not a direct representation of the kit, but of one of a more complicated piece of automata.  Using the kit will help you understand the basic principles involved, and inspire you to make your own.

    Make is proud to be the only store this side of the pond to carry this kit.

    Designing Automata Kit by London's Cabaret Mechanical Theatre (CMT)


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  3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
 
needs more cams, fewer beads November 20, 2009
Reviewer: Anonymous person from Fishers, IN United States  
Maybe it has to do with the build-up in my head, but this kit isn't that great.  OK, but not great.

It's a lot more limited than I would have expected from the photo.  There are only 4 cams, and 4 cam-follower holes in the frame, so if you're using all of them you can only swap them around for variation.

Because of this, you can't have elements doing the same thing on top (e.g. 3 spinning ballerinas).

What's annoying is there's like 2 pounds of other simple wooden stuff in the kit, which is good only for the bouncing and spinning bits on top.

The cam shaft is square, which is nice because the square-holed cams don't slip.  The cams fit on a hollow square plastic core which the square shaft slips into.  Or, if it's like mine, it will slip into after you've sanded it down considerably (losing points on quality).

For this to be really cool you'd have to make more pieces, which is maybe what you should do in the first place, and skip the kit.

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