automata - How to build a simple automata

1) Click on the image to see this automata mouving

2) Use a paper box (a shoes box is ok)

You don't need the upper part of the box

3) Materials you will need:

- Long sticks (those for cooking are ok) to build the mechanism

- Drinking straws through which pass the long sticks

- Bottles caps or corks

- Soft foam to be cutted in wheels or in parts of puppets

4) Tools you will need (you must use hot glue and awls with your teacher or with your parents)

- Scissors

- Glue

- Markers

- Awl

5) Open the shoes box and make the mechanism inside the box using two long sticks and two wheels:

you can make the wheels cutting foam or soft rubber or using bottles cap

6) The vertical stick must pass through a drinking straw, that will be fixed with glue on the top of the box

7) Create a figure by using rubber or paper

8) Put it up on the vertical stick

9) Put an handle on the end of the horizontal stick. Make it with a bottle cap.

10) All is ready! Turn the handle and see your automata mouving!

Great job!