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Wooden Automata Constructor Set

Speaking of Automata, here’s a kit where you can make your own:

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I love this stuff.

There’s a whole site for automatons here:
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and needless to say there are hundreds of them on youtube.

“I could do that” is the spirit of the age – or one of them at least. It’s what sets us apart from our TV-watching cultural ancestry.

There’s something a bit spooky about these things

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Reminds me of Czech stop-motion cult-bloke, Jan Švankmajer who made Alice and Wonderland and Faust among others.

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  1. I am also an Automata FREAK! Can’t get enough! AND in a huge breakthrough this week, I finally made my first lenticular optic animation! I have a feeling you like that technology as well?

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An ode to Cognitive Surplus.

A celebration of the inventive backwaters of the human spirit... a celebration of people who would appear to have far too much time on their hands...


A celebration of laterality.


If you come they will build it.


By knowledge shall the spheres be filled.


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