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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Thursday , May 31, 2012 Video of bizarre coin-operated mortuary scene automaton that is to go to auction Skinner will have its next Auction this Saturday , June 2, 2012 in Marlborough , Massachusetts . In addition to clocks , fossils , scientific instruments and antique weapons , the auction will feature a handful of antique automata . Probably the most interesting of these is this St . Dennistoun Mortuary coin-operated . automaton This remarkable piece is attributed to Leonard Lee and dated to around 1900. Housed in a mahogany cabinet with glass front , the scene depicts a mortuary building
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Printed Quad with RADAR mount, a photo by x2800m on Flickr.Curious friends have been asking, "What would you do with a 3D printer?" This RepRap printed quadcopter by x2800m should answer that. I'm not sure if he has, or intends to, share the quadcopter design and STL files, but that's really irrelevant. The important thing [...]
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Mindstorm robotics Duration : 0:0:20 Technorati Tags: NXT
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Learn more: http://creativemachines.cornell.edu/machine-metabolism http://www.jeremyblum.com/portfolio/machine-metabolism/ Accepted for Publication in IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine Robot shown developed by Franz Nigl, Jeremy Blum, and Shuguang Li under the direction of Dr. Hod Lipson. This video presents a robot capable of autonomously traversing and manipulating a 3D truss structure. The robot is able to approach and traverse multiple [...]
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Wednesday , May 30, 2012 Paul Spooner interview from the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre archives Sue Jackson , founder of Cabaret Mechanical Theatre shared this video from their archives . The clip features an interview with legendary automata maker Paul Spooner on the TV program This Morning I love his cheeky answers which are both amusing and completely candid . It's a delightful interview with a clever . man You can see more of Paul Spooner's automata by visiting Cabaret Mechanical Theatre . online Labels : behind-the-scenes Cabaret Mechanical Theatre interview Paul Spooner Sue Jackson TV UK
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FOLDed is a collection of fun paper toys you cut out and assemble yourself designed by Ed Beals. This animation show how to assemble "Rusty", the trash eating robot. By wenchellbogum
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My Friend made this for me plz sub to him here http://www.youtube.com/user/AgralArts?feature=watch Duration : 0:5:45 Technorati Tags: abstract, art, artist, artists", artwork, clean, color, contemporary, design, digital, drawing, drawings, easy, fray, Geck, installation, Life, LIFE (UK Organisation), Listening, modern, museum, paint, painter, painting, paintings, Pencil, photoshop, portrait, Quick, robot, save, Saving, sculpture, simple, SPEED, Speed [...]
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Heather Knight, a social robotics researcher at Carnegie Mellon, is finding ways to design robots that can pick up on social cues and nuanced human behavior. The result is a tiny robot that can perform stand up comedy. Duration : 0:2:53 Technorati Tags: android, Carnegie Mellon, comedy, Heather Knight, humor, MarilynMonrobot', Robotics (Field Of Study), [...]
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: , , The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Tuesday , May 29, 2012 Kinetic sculpture uses water , air bubbles , and a toilet flush mechanism Take a look at this fantastic sculpture by Andrew Smith titled Exhaler V The piece features an enclosed water tank inside of which a capsule is slowly lifted by a stream of air bubbles . Upon breaking the surface of the water at the top , a toilet flush mechanism is triggered , causing the capsule to descent again so the process can be repeated . Very inventive See more sculptures by Andrew Smith on his web . site Labels : air Andrew Smith float found objects glass gravity metal water posted
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I first met Hajime Sakamoto in 2005 during a ROBO-ONE competition in Tokyo. One of the most striking and impressive things about Sakamoto was his total dedication to humanoid robotics Many of the other ROBO-ONE competitors design excellent, world-class robots but they do it primarily as a hobby. It's a way for them to express [...]
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Sure, we see hexapods all the time at HAD, but moving around with four legs can be more tricky kinematics-wise. This Instructable shows you how to make one out of balsa wood.Hack a Day Technorati Tags: Balsa Wood, hack, Instructable, legs, Quadruped Robot
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NAO knows how to match his movements to your voice! Given the same movement template*, NAO modifies the dynamics to give different emotional impressions, just like an actor can perform the same scene in several ways! * Here, the movements are selected randomly from a database containing 3 motions By mspetitegeek
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“Two Ball Juggling with High-speed Hand-Arm and High-speed Vision System,” by Takahiro Kizaki and Akio Namiki from the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University in Japan. Used with permission. Read more at http://spectrum.ieee.org/blog/automaton Duration : 0:0:47 Incoming search terms:wordpress danielalexan80 (1) Technorati Tags: icra, icra 2012, icra2012, juggling, robot, robotics, robots
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Animusic 2 DVD - Robots rock out on top of an amazing spaceship - www.animusic.com. By AnimusicLLC
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This is a simple drawing robot made from a Micro Magician Arduino compatible controller and 3 miniature servos. Two servos have been converted to plain geared motors with no control circuit. These are driven by the Micro Magicians on-board dual H bridge. the third servo (running on 3.3V) raises and lowers the pen. By OdBot
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After watching my previous 3D printing videos, Billy Zelsnack - creator of the low cost/high performance Printxel 3D Printer - recommended that I evaluate KISSlicer for analyzing models and generating the necessary G-codes to run the printer. My initial tests with KISSlicer were quite positive. It features a 3D display of the model, a rich [...]
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Saturday , May 26, 2012 Programmable acrobat robot with 17 servos and 75 moves Check out this is acrobatic robot The robot has a repertoire of 75 moves that include somersaults , backflips , and a variety of comical . moves From the Advanced Acrobatic Robot : description With a 60 MHz microcontroller , the robot has 17 servos that work in unison with an included gyro sensor and accelerometer to maintain balance and stability while providing lightning-quick movements that suggest humanoid sentience , commanded by an included wireless gamepad remote control . The points of articulation in its
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I ran Test Part A through Slic3r to generate some representative G-Codes just to see if it would process without major errors. Of course the actual processing will require setting parameters that aren't available yet. Then I loaded the resulting data into Pronterface-Mac to see the actual tool paths and get some estimates of the [...]
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My 3D printer won't be up and running for at least a few weeks, but in the meantime I've been getting ready by designing some simple robot parts and tests. This particular part is intended to test the printer and aide in it's setup/calibration. It includes a number of different solids and shapes while being [...]
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Friday , May 25, 2012 Pendulum-powered bobbing paper bird project with plans Here's a really clever paper project designed by artist engineer , Rob Ives . The paper bird is powered by a pendulum in the base . When you move the box , even slightly , and the bird comes to life bobbing up and down . Rob Ives has created free plans for this project , complete with instructions and downloadable patterns Here where you can get the plans and instructions for the pendulum-powered paper bird project Labels : birds DIY gravity instructable Paper papercraft pendulum plans rainy day projects Rob Ives
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Thursday , May 24, 2012 Among the automata at the Morris Museum in New Jersey The Paris Review recently featured a great article on the the Morris Museum and its fascinating collection of automata and mechanical music . machines From the article Among the Automata The collection's permanent exhibit , more whimsical than steampunk in aesthetic , attracts huge numbers of schoolchildren during the week . Even empty , though , it felt busy , alive with click and chime and jingle . The sound is artificial : the objects are designed to move , but in a museum setting and for conservation purposes ,
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Wednesday , May 23, 2012 Two-legged walking robot toy moves via shape-memory alloy I was introduced to robotics and shape-memory alloys when I bought the book Stiquito for Beginners : An Introduction to Robotics and made the small hexapod robot that comes with the book as a kit . The clever little two-legged inchworm robot shown here is powered by the same Muscle Wire also known as Nitinol . Nitinol is nickle titanium allow that will return to a pre-defined shape when brought to specific temperatures . Heat from an electrical current causes it to contract , making this little inchworm take
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Tuesday , May 22, 2012 Metal kinetic sculpture by Todd Dunning Have a look at this fascinating kinetic sculpture by artist Todd Dunning titled Mount Rainier I love the rusty parts , gentle squeaking , interesting forms , and how the piece shakes ever-so-slightly as it moves . Lovely video too From the YouTube : Description First in a series , this 48 H . welded steel sculpture oscillates , shakes and squeaks . Mount Rainier' analogizes the complexity of natural systems , according to the . artist Thanks Christoph posted by Dug North on Tuesday , May 22, 2012 0 : Comments Post a Comment Older
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: : The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Monday , May 21, 2012 Automata Exhibition : Child Soldiers' by Carlos Zapata Automata artist Carlos Zapata was born in conflict-torn Colombia in 1963. The themes in some of his work come from a personal awareness that children are all too often used in armed conflict . His new exhibition , Child Soldiers' , addresses sad fact . About the : exhibit This solo exhibition contains Carlos Zapata's latest series of intimate and emotive sculptures and automata which have at their core the humanitarian often violent struggle of the innocent , often children , who are drawn in to the maelstrom of
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Friday , May 18, 2012 Keith Newstead making the Don Quixote Automaton Here's a lovely bit of video from our friends at Cabaret Mechanical Theatre The video features automatist Keith Newstead working on a Don Quixotie automaton . Along the way , he defines automata , where his ideas come from , how cams work , and various other details of the automaton's creation . Also shown in the video are Keith Newstead's works Under the Sea The Flying Couch Potato and The Brassy Mermaid Wonderful stuff Recently on Spiel und Kunst mit Mechanik blog posted by Dug North on Friday , May 18, 2012 0 : Comments
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Thursday , May 17, 2012 Contemporary automata addressing social issues Contemporary automata are often fun and whimsical . This playful nature can mask the fact that they are also capable of taking on serious social issues . Here is an automaton by Nick Hunn that makes a statement about the a serious political debate in the . UK The artist explains the background of this : automaton In the UK there's a political debate raging about reform in our National Health Service , which is polarising opinion at a national level . I thought it might be fun to try and represent the limited abilities of
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Wednesday , May 16, 2012 Miniature kinetic sculptures using tiny figures mounted to watch hands Artist Dominic Wilcox has created a series of miniature kinetic sculptures using tiny figures adhered to the face and hands of vintage watches . Each diminutive scene is then covered with a clear dome . The collection covers a variety of subjects including protest , surveillance , technology , money , and sports . The gleaming watch bezels and tiny candy-red figures are a fascinating and unexpected medium for exploring social issues . Many have playful , surreal themes . See more of Dominic
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Tuesday , May 15, 2012 Scuba Diver automaton by Ernie Reynolds Check out the excellent motions of this scuba diver automaton by maker Ernie Reynolds posted by Dug North on Tuesday , May 15, 2012 0 : Comments Post a Comment Older Posts If you shop at Amazon help support this blog by using this link . Details Automata Links Automata by Dug North Books about Automata Mechanical Toys and Gadgets Automaton Kits Automata for Sale on eBay Contact Dug North : Connect Previous Posts Humor in Craft book featuring automata is now ship . Automata presentation will address the question : c . The character
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Monday , May 14, 2012 Humor in Craft book featuring automata is now shipping from Amazon If you've spent any time reading The Automata Automaton Blog you know that an element of humor is common to many automata , especially the contemporary ones . This fact wasn't lost on the creators of the book Humor in Craft They have included the work of at least one automata artist , namely Jim Kransberger One of his pieces is shown on the cover the red-headed potter Three others will be found within the book which is now available from . Amazon.com From the book : description What happens when
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: : The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Friday , May 11, 2012 Automata presentation will address the question : conservation or restoration More than a year ago , the Morris Museum initiated a program of one-hour , evening Spotlight presentations , each focusing on a different aspect of the Murtogh D . Guinness collection Specific automata and or mechanical musical instruments are brought out of both the exhibition and storage to illustrate their role in the arts , music and or society . This usually sparks a vigorous discussion by the . audience During the upcoming program on May 24th , Jere Ryder , Guinness Collection
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Thursday , May 10, 2012 The character of contemporary automata and some possible implications for engineering There is an interesting article from 2010 over at the Low-Tech Magazine blog . The article is titled Automata : engineering for a post-oil world The article touches on the history of automata , the character of contemporary automata , and how together these things might suggest an alternate approach to technology and engineering in the future . It's not a thesis that is developed in detail , but there are some keen insights in this brief article . It does gives us something to think .
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Monday , May 07, 2012 Half Ounce automaton by Nick Rayburn I posted a while back about this fascinating automaton by Nick Rayburn titled Half Ounce The beautifully crafted wood and brass sculpture also incorporates a unique assemblage of found objects including an antique letter balance , spirit bubble level , feathers , and a bird skull Now that is something you can't find just . anywhere The piece is currently available on eBay . Here is where you can see more photos and or bid on the Half Ounce automaton by Nick Rayburn You might also be interested in checking out his version of the
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: The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Sunday , May 06, 2012 Mechanical Moose Sculpture article by Charles Mak Another good friend of The Automata Automaton Blog Charles Mak , has an article in the June edition of Creative Woodworks Crafts magazine In it , you will find plans and instructions for making the clever automaton shown in the photo . above From the article : introduction Why limit your scroll sawing skills to making plaques , puzzles , or portraits only With a scroll saw , you can build one-of-a-kind mechanical sculptures a layman's term for automata that are not only fun to design and make , but also to play with . I
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: : The Automata Automaton Blog The Blog for Makers and Collectors of Mechanical Automata and Mechanical Toys The Automata Automaton Blog The Automata Automaton Store Automata on eBay Dug North Automata Friday , May 04, 2012 Two Foto Animator : hand-cranked optical animation machine A very good friend to The Automata Automaton Blog Joe Freedman of LEAFpdx in Portland , Oregon has come up with another great laser-cut wooden machine . If you don't recall , Freedman has brought us the hand-cranked Retroscope animation machine , the Weird Gears box set and the divine PrimoGraf drawing machine among other . things He's done it again with his latest optical animation toy called the Two Foto Animator shown here . The machine is made of cherry and walnut with brass fittings . The project is now
