1. Automata Toys Free Patterns Sewing Patterns
2. Automata Toys Free Patterns For Beginners
3. Automata Toys Free Patterns Simplicity

Once you’re comfortable laying out the gear, layout the pattern for each gear on the wood you’re using. This also may require a few tries. Working on this example required about two hours to layout eleven gears from start to finish. Steps 2 & 3 Step 2: Cut Out the Gear. Now you’ll need to cut the round gear from the block of wood. Oct 28, 2020 - Explore Alan Meritt's board 'AUTOMATA - WHEELED AND WALKING', followed by 250 people on Pinterest. See more ideas about Wood toys, Wooden toys, Automata.

Free paper models that are animated or mechanical. These amazing machines are made of paper, gears and mechanics...

Barnacle Press - Mechanical papercraft toy puppets originally from the LA Times, Junior Times section in the 1920s. Oscar the Owl, Rollo the Rookie, Halfback Harry, Tom and Jerry to name just a few.

Free building instructions available at the link. Bunny and Kitten Pull Toys PDF At the link you can download the free patterns for the bunny and kitten pull toys. Trio of Toys Here you will find three toy plans including a wooden boom crane and a doll cradle. Construction Toys Build wooden construction toys for the sandbox!!

Bizzarre Stuff - Animation Toys - A simple printable Zoetrope is at the bottom or the page. Also, instructions on how to make a Thaumatrope and Phenakistiscope.

Cardnetics - Very clever devices that are business card size, made from a sturdy card stock. They offer a Cardapult, Penny Shooter, Trebucard, and Iris cards! The designer sells them as unique business cards but he also offers free build your own plans. Choose 'Printing info' under the heading 'Information' on the right side. Once on the Printing Info page, look for 'Outlines' around mid page. You can then select the cardnetics you want and download outlines in multiple choices of graphics formats. Very clever designs!

Canon - In the Toys section there are some very cute: zebra, elephant, frog chorus, a leaping goat, ruminating cow, pop-up grasshopper and a tiger that jumps through a ring of fire, clowns on stilts, and a working carousel. In Science/Universe there is a moving Copernican and a Ptolemaic system. In Toys: a flip animation wheel with changable cards.

Car with People - People in an car that goes up and down, cute.

Conservatory Coffin - Great animated coffin from Disney Worlds The Haunted Mansion.

Gangnam Style Machine - Very cute animated man doing the Gangnam Style dance!

How to Make an Animated Paper Robot- Step by step instructions, by Rob Ives, on how to build a paper robot. Push the robot up and down and he stretches his robot claws.

How to Make A RoomaRang - Indoor roomerang, a simple returning boomerang made out of cardstock. Template is here. There is a template for both a wood boomerang and the cardstock version is at bottom.

Jade the Dragon - Free to download, but it states on the page that it is shareware. Go to Download under Jade Dragon.

Keyboard Cat - Cute cat playing a piano keyboard.

Paper Mario Automata - A paper automata of Nintendo's very popular video game character Mario, turn the crank and Mario jumps and hits the gold gift box and coin pops out. There is are others: Paper Mario Hammer, Flying Kirby and Mechanical POW Block, do a site search for 'Automata' to bring them all up. fun!

Paper Puzzle Parade - Pneumatic rocket that actually flies and a zoetrope.

Paperpino - There is an clown riding a trike, a jumping sheep, Leonardo’s mechanical hammer, a bird and more. All very cute.

Paper Skull - Cool cube skull that opens and closes it's mouth with the touch of a finger.

Ravensblight Mechanical Bat - Very nice 8 page cam and piston paper model of a bat.

Sasatoku Printing - A mole, woodpecker, horse, seal, monkey and a waving lucky cat. Very nice paper model design work.

Mechanical Models that Really Work- Very nice mechanical paper toys from a software program for the Commodore 64 that was released in the 1980s. There is an Antique Truck, Balancing Jet, Carousel, Helicraft, Jet Dragster, Bank, Catapult, Mercer Raceabout, Pennypower Scale, The Spirit of St. Louis, Starship, Steam Engine, Oil Pump and Table Saw, Tractor Crane and more.

Niklas Roy - There is a fully working maual plotter, a cardboard computer, and other projects. I could not find the templates to construct them, but it is very interesting none the less.

Various Working Paper Model Engines - Amazing!

Walking Mech Warrior - Turn a crank and a Mech Warrior takes a walk! Modeled after the Madcat Timberwolf in popular video games. Very nice!

Dragon Optical Illusion - I love this illusion!

Ikemath Illusions - Really cool optical illusions that are like modern art sculptures.

Impossible Motion - Very interesting motion and solid object illusions.

Peter Dahmen - There are lots of fascinating pop-up cards and illusions on his site. There is a magic floating cube, endless love valentine card and flower pop up, just to name a few! Worth a long browse.

Portrait of Lady illusion - The echibit is called Curious. A ladies head follows you as you walk by or move the protrait. Nice effect..

The Moving Sculpture Illusion - It really looks like this skeleton is turning his head to follow you! Easy build, I love this great effect!

Yoda - This was my first illusion model. Yodas' eyes appear to follow you as you walk past him.

Automata - All about paper toy automata. In addition to the history, they discuss mechanisms, designing, tools and construction techniques. And don't forget to check out their gallery. Their art work ranges from card stock and cardboard to wood.

Cabaret Mechanical Theater - For the most part this site is about wooden automata. But most of the ideas translate to paper as well. They do show the motion of the Geneva Mechanism. They also have a very nice wooden prototyping kit for sale.

Cool 4 Cats - There are no free kits but they have videos demostrating all of their automaton kits that you may find entertaining, inspiring or educational.

Mechanical Movements - Some of the illustrations are animated and some are not, they just haven't completed them yet. When looking for ideas for designing animated paper models, this site could be helpful.

Mechanism - I think this is one cool web site. If you want to build any type of paper toy automata, you will want to spend time here. Here you'll find plenty of teacher resources and print outs to help with classroom activites.

Paper Engineer's Workshop- There are no longer any free models or at least I cannot find them. There are some very nice mechanical paper toys and browse the site for some great ideas and amusement.

Paper Mechanics / Automata by Walter Ruffler- A discussion of the principals of paper model mechanics.

Rob Ives - Animated demostrations of all sorts of paper cranks, gears, cams, levers, pistons and lots more.From hand crank mechanisms to pendulum power and even rubber band powered pop-up models. Go to the Workshop Notes on the right to read the blog and gain insights into how paper models are developed. Choose Shop on the right to find the amazing free models. Choose the house shaped icon in the upper right hand corner to get the home page for an overview of what's new. His models are fun to build and educational to play with. Rob Ives is a personal favorite paper model artist of mine. His site is a must see.

Here’s an updated list of paper automata that are free to download:

Brother Creative Centre
https://creativecenter.brother.eu/family-center/family-filter?category=paper-craft
Wide range of papercraft to download and make, including some basic mechanisms (crank, gears and cams) and several animal automata by Rob Ives.

Canon Creative Park
http://cp.c-ij.com/en/index.html
Canon’s Creative Park provides over 50 ‘Moving Toys’ in its Paper Craft section, including paper automata by well-known artists such as Keisuke Saka, Hideharu Naitoh, Haruki Nakamura, and Rob Ives.

Jonathan Hodgins
http://www.instructables.com/id/Walking-Papercraft-Mech-Warrior/
An Instructable for a paper automata Mech Warrior that appears to walk when a crank is turned.

Kamibox
http://www.kamibox.de/download
Several themed paper automata to download and make, including a Minecraft Machine, a Gangnam Style Machine, a Tiny Wings Machine, a Paper Mario Machine, a Kirby Machine, and a Nyan Cat Machine.

Keisuke Saka
http://www.zuko.to/kobo/dl/market_sheep_e.html
Link to ‘Stray Sheep’, a free paper automaton by Japanese designer Keisuke Saka, who has produced many other wonderful paper automata, for sale individually via his website, on Canon Creative Park (see above) or in his book, Karakuri: How to Make Mechanical Paper Models That Move. With a bit of digging around, it is also possible to find several other free paper automata by the maestro: a rotating Train on the Japanese Ministry of Transport website, a Rice-Thumping Rabbit and various Flying Animals on the Kirin website, a Woodpecker and Worm, and three Christmas automata – Flapping Angel, Ebony & Ivory (& Yellow), and Turkey on 23rd December.

Matt Hawkins (Custom Paper Toys)
http://www.custompapertoys.com/
US-based cartoonist Matt Hawkins creates marvellous paper toys, including a number of automata: Mr Robot, Owwwl, Chuckles, and – with a mechanism designed by Rob Ives – Paper Pop Andy Warhol.

Objective Ministries
http://objectiveministries.org/kidz/crafts.html
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for links to the somewhat eccentric Professor Giraffenstein’s Clockwork Creation Science Factoidamajig, and Pteva the Pterodactyl flying automata.

Paperpino
http://www.paperpino.net/category/paper-automata/
Over half a dozen free paper automata by Giuseppe Civitarese a.k.a. Paperpino, including Sweet Dreams, Peace Dove, Wandering in the Sky, The Rolling Reels Circus, Warning! Air Pockets, and working models of Leonardo da Vinci’s Anemometer and Mechanical Hammer. (Also some wonderful Paper Globes.)

Ravensblight
http://ravensblight.com/papertoys.html
Lots of spooky paper toys to construct by Ray O’Bannon, including a Mechanical Bat automata and a Haunted Carousel.

Rob Ives
https://www.robives.com/category/tags/free
You can find paper automata designed by prolific British paper engineer Rob Ives all over the place – Brother’s Creative Centre and Canon’s Creative Park (above) to name but two. Rob also has a range of free downloads from his own website, including: Agreeable Sheep, Cat o’Log, a rocking Unicorn!, flapping Owl, Pop-up Pumpkin and a couple of working mechanisms, a simple Crank Slider and a Double Action Ratchet.

Robot Tairiku (in Japanese)
http://mizio-s.hp.infoseek.co.jp/r-kata.html
Download and construct an arm-Flapping Robot, an articulated Robot Arm, and a trunk-raising Elephant.

Ryo Tokisato (in Japanese)
http://www1.rcn.ne.jp/~pi-ne/sigoto.html
Scroll down the page to download the free Flapping Penguinbank, which moves when you drop your money in the slot.

Sasatoku Printing Company (in Japanese)
http://www.sasatoku.co.jp/html/contents/special/papercraft/
Click on the grey bar below the first set of paper flowers to expand the page, and scroll down. 6 free paper automata available: Winking Cat, Sailor Monkey, Seal Balancing Gift, Laughing Horse, Woodpecker, and Mole.

Steven Marshall
http://www.homespunmagixx.com/dragon/dragon_download.asp
A ‘build before you buy’ undulating Jade Dragon paper automata.

The Toy Shop
https://mikeandlace.wordpress.com/category/paper-automata/
20 working mechanical models to print out and make, originally from an old Commodore 64 program in the 1980s.

Walter Ruffler
http://www.walterruffler.de/Download/teich2.html
Walter Ruffler has a whole range of ingenious paper automata for sale on his website and in his book, Paper Models That Move: 14 Ingenious Automata, and More. At the Duck’s Pond is a free download to whet your appetite, and he also offers a couple of free mechanical greetings cards: Angel and Mr Deer.

And here are a few, simpler, one-off paper automata:

Chip Fyn (Fiddler’s Green)
http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/misc/cow/free-cow.htm
A free Bobbin’ Head Cow to download and make – guy or gal variety.

Funny Character Cafe (in Japanese)
http://fccafe.fc2web.com/santa.html
Yuuku’s Wriggling Santa got stuck in the chimney…

Joe McRichardson
http://joemcrichardson.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/paper-toy-frighteneddude.htmlA FrightenedDude whose mouth opens and closes.

Peter J. Visser
http://www.icebergbouwplaten.nl/free4.html
A simple nodding cat.

Ray Keim
http://www.haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index302.html
A simple lever mechanism makes the ghost try to lift the lid of this Conservatory Coffin.

Takeo Hayashi
http://www10.ocn.ne.jp/~papiy/tenkai.html
Scroll down for the pattern and instructions for a karakuri Box Dog Puppy with flapping ears.

Tubby Paws
http://tubbypaws.blogspot.co.uk/2009/08/meow-again-its-time-for-papercraft.html
A cute Keyboard Cat paper automata.

William Bullock
http://williambullock.blogspot.co.uk/2011_05_01_archive.html
A waving hand in a box.

And finally, an archive of antique paper mechanical toys uploaded by Brazilian model maker Hugo:

Brinquedos mecânicos
http://brinquedosautomatos.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Modelos%20Mec%C3%A2nicos

PAPER AUTOMATA FOR SALE

Automata Toys Free Patterns Sewing Patterns

Rob Ives
Website: https://www.robives.com/

Automata Toys Free Patterns For Beginners

Walter Ruffler
Website: http://www.walterruffler.de/index1.html
(Gallery of Paper Automata: http://www.walterruffler.de/Galerie/Gallery.html)

AUTOMATA BUILDERS

Automata Toys Free Patterns Simplicity

Linda van Breemen (DutchPaperGirl)
New website: http://dutchpapergirl.nl/
(Old Website: http://www.l.van.breemen.scarlet.nl/home/homnewengels.html)
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