£15.00
Essential Mechanisms. Pack One
Categories Collection, education, Essential Mechanism, Paper
Tags education, mechanism, stem
The first Essential Mechanism pack has three of each of four types of paper project: Cams, Cranks, Gears and Compound Mechanisms.
Each one is a great starting point for your own character based paper animation or automata. Buy the pack and you’ll have a suitable mechanism for just about any situation!
Cam Based Mechanism
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Cam Box
A single cam in a box. Turn the handle and the push rod protruding from the box top moves up and down. Fit different cam profiles for different movements. |
Double Cam Box
Two cams on a single camshaft. Turn the handle and the push rods can move together or independently depending on what cam profiles you use. |
Shaker Cams
Turn the handle and the two cams on the camshaft push the vertical shaft back and forth, perfect for a dog to look quickly from side to side! |
Crank Based Mechanisms
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Double Bell Crank
Turn the handle on the side of the box and the push rods move alternately up and down. Used in the Double Giraffe model here |
Crank Slider
A basic crank in a box. Turn the handle and the push rod at the top of the box makes a smooth curved motion. An excellent starting point for all sorts of models! |
Crank Box
Turn the handle and the slider on the top of the box moves back and forth. Connect up your character to the slider to bring it to life. |
Gear Based Mechanisms
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Mesh Gear 11:23
Turn the handle on the side of the box and the vertical shaft rotates driven by meshing gears. |
Gear Up
Turn the handle on the side of the box and the small gear on top of the box spins fast! |
Co-Axial Gears
Turn the handle and the two vertical shafts turn on opposite directions. |
Compound Mechanisms
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Gear / Crank
Turn the handle and the pinion gear drives the large gear to slowly turn large gear and crank. |
Crank / Cam
Turn the handle and the push rod makes a smooth curve while the outer push rod moves up and down quickly. Ideal for making a flapping character! |
Geneva / Crank
Turn the Geneva drive handle and the crank in the box turns round, one quarter turn at a time. |
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