Wooden Automata Constructor Set

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

I love this stuff.

There’s a whole site for automatons here:

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

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