Making Moving Toys and Automata

Description

This beautiful book draws on Robert Race's extensive collection of traditional moving toys, looking at the ways the makers have achieved remarkable and varied results, often with very limited resources. Each chapter begins by looking at the mechanisms and materials used in some of these traditional moving toys, goes on to consider possible variations, and describes how to make a related moving toy. It continues, from this basis, to develop a design for an automaton. The book shows that designing and making these simple but wonderfully satisfying mechanical devices is fun, and that good results can be achieved in many different ways, using a variety of materials, tools and equipment such as wood and wire, card and paper, bamboo, string, tin plate and feathers. Review: Empfehlenswert - Tolle Anregungen, gut gemacht. Review: I really liked this book. - This is the second book I've gotten from Robert Race and I like it. It's cleanly written with good descriptions of the mechanisms of the toys and automata. Lots of examples and things to make and samples from all over the world as well as projects of his own showing how to utilize the ideas of that chapter. I'm trying to learn how to make moving art and this was definitely a big help in getting me going in the right direction.