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A pendulum powered Giraffe to print out and make! Move the box, however slightly, and the giraffe bobs up and down enthusiastically!
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Print out the first five parts sheets onto thin card. (230 gsm / 67lb) The last page should be printed onto standard photocopier/printer paper. (80gsm)
Cut out all the holes and score along the dotted and dashed lines before carefully cutting out the parts.
Fold up and glue down the peg supports.
Glue the peg supports to the grey areas on the side pieces. Use the 'Up' and 'Front' labels to ensure that you get them aligned correctly.
Glue the side pieces to the box pieces. The side pieces need to line up with the centre fold and the top fold of the box. The grey arrow points to the top centre of the box. One is marked Top Front (above) the other is marked Top Back.
Fold up the tabs top and bottom to make three right angled triangular section tubes.
Glue together the three support pegs as shown.
Assemble the bell crank and glue on the paper hinges in the positions shown.
Glue together the two parts of the pendulum back to back as shown above. Glue on the round paper hinge.
Assemble the top link and glue on the paper hinge.
Glue the two box halves together so that the front of the box is in the centre. Fold the box round and glue up the front lower flap to keep the box in shape.
Glue the three pegs to the grey areas on the peg support pieces. Make sure that the box stays square as the glue dries.
Glue the pendulum to the front peg by the paper hinge as shown.
Make up two coin packs with some off-cuts of card. Each pack has two coins, I have used 2 x 2p pieces (25mm diameter 7grams weight.
Glue the coin packs to the pendulum front and back as shown.
Glue a paper hinge to the lower linkage piece. Glue the hinge to the centre of the rear coin pack as shown. Fit the bell crank, upper linkage and vertical piece. the diagram in the next section will help with working out what fits where. Bear in mind that the bell crank threads through the hole in the centre of the pendulum.
Fit the bell crank, upper linkage and vertical piece.
Assemble the giraffe neck and head
Make up the horns and ears by folding over and gluing down the paper to make double thickness. Cut them out and glue them into place. Glue on the eyes.
Make up the lids by folding over the card to make double thickness card sandwiching the hinge in the middle.
Glue up the box side and glue down the remaining bottom flap.
Glue the neck to the vertical piece then glue on the lids.
Touch the box and the giraffe will bob enthusiastically!
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Once again Michael42er excels himself, this time with a fantastic mash-up of the Bevel Gear project and robot from the Press Ups project. Fantastic work Michael, I love it!
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And the winner is! Doncrush! Thanks you everyone for joining in the fun :-)
Bob the Dog - one of the Paper Animation Kits available on the Flying Pig website It's been a while since I put one of these together so I've really quite enjoyed myself! You can order your own printed kit at the flying pig website along with a whole range of other models. Watch the video of the models construction here then read on to find out how you can win the original model and a signed kit.
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The endlessly creative Michael42er has done it again! This time he has created a mashup with the Press ups project and the Heisenberg character. The result is this rather splendid YouTube video. Thanks Michael! That's fantastic!
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Three videos for you to enjoy on YouTube. Firstly, from the hand of Michael42er, we have his splendid version of the recent squeeze box project featuring two sizes of squeeze box. Nice work Michael!.
Secondly, I also produced a video of the squeeze box in action. I added it to the original post a couple of days after it was originally posted so incase you missed it...
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Friend of the website and prolific modifier Michael42er has created a new paper animation, this time combining the Vertical Pendulum and parts from the Pneumatic Giraffe.
Nice work Michael!
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Friend of the website Dan, aka waterrocketsrule has been busy making some fantastic paper projects over the last few week. His latest is this mashup between the Snowman sculpture and the mech from the disagreeable sheep.
I'm sure you'll agree he has created a fantastic new project!
Earlier, he created a cam powered set of chomping teeth, a project which spurred me into finishing of the pendulum powered gnashers I had in an almost complete state. Nice one Dan!
Go and subscribe to his channel on YouTube where you can also check out his fabulous flapping trout model (I wish I'd thought of that one!)
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Friend of the website, Waterrocketsrule sent me the link to these YouTube videos of the modified T.Rex he has created based on the original from the Flying Pig site. Nice work!
Happy New Year!
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Steven A has uploaded this video of his modified Paper Pencil. He has modified it to include the inside of a ball point pen so that it actually writes. Nice work Steven, thanks for sharing!
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Michael42er's latest mash-up features the Pop Up Pumpkin and the Posting Cam Zine envelopes. It would make a great Halloween gift to send to a far off relative. Nice work Michael!
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