Video of kinetic sculptures by artist eda taşlı

Check out this great video featuring a selection of kinetic sculptures from eda taşlı.

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Black & white film from 1950 featuring musical automata

Check out this preview clip provided by The British Pathé Film Archive featuring a number of automata filmed in 1950. Among the automata shown are a gorgeous watch-sized music box, a whistling figure, banjo player, musical birds, a monkey playing the harp, a tight rope walker, and a smoking cavalier figure puffing away on a real cigarette!

[ Thanks Michael! ]

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How to use old gift cards to spread glue

The folks at the Timberkits Workshop have taken time to share two uses for old plastic credit or gift cards. It turns out they can be quite useful when gluing Timberkits wood automata kits, or anything else for that matter! The first tip demonstrated shows how to use two credit card shims to allow a captive cam to move freely. The second tip shows that slivers of old credit card make great glue spreaders -- especially for the endgrain of wood.

Timberkits wooden automata kits can be ordered online:
  In the United States visit: http://www.timberkitsus.com/store/
  In the UK and Europe http: xhttp://www.timberkits.com/Home/

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