OK, Jay, this clip takes a bit of set-up. Basically, it’s a model of a factory-floor machine for moving pallet around a square assembly line. You put a pushing arm at each corner of the square and trigger them alternately in caddy-corner pairs. S
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Papercraft Paradise has links to a couple really neat paper models. Konicaminolta has a wonderful fiddler crab model. There are 2 PDFs – one has the parts, the other has instructions. And Kirin has a cute polar bear papercraft with a wobbly head; also has 2 pdfs. (you have to click through a couple times […]
Continue ReadingHere’s Crabfu’s latest quick and easy project to add a “dragonfly canopy” to a sub-micro helicopter. I-Wei does complain that the added weight was significant and really changed the flight dynamics. Sub Micro Helicopter Dragonfly
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Iconic Swiss architect Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye done in LEGOs. Le Corbusier – Villa Savoye [via]
Continue ReadingWhen I was a tween, I lived for slot-cars. Our small town outside of Richmond, VA had two slot car shops/tracks for a few years. This video from Spain shows a race from fixed and car-mounted cameras. Really nice track too. And vroom-vroom sound effects. Scalextric EXIN made in Spain [via]
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On Dinosaurs + Robots, Mister Jalopy wrote about this sweet 1940s gas-powered model racer: Starting in the 1920’s, well before radio control cars, hobbyists built and raced nitro burning model cars tethered to a center point like an old Cox airplane. Eventually, there was a commercial market of such size that small manufacturers like Duro-Matic […]
Continue ReadingPrepared to be mezMOrized by the “kinetic geometries” of this flat-fold paper model. Flat Fold Paper Models [Thanks, Patti!]
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