Atticus / Creative Arts / English / Maths / Science & Technology

Automation

Today’s Kiwi Tinker crate is all about automaton. It shows us the the art and mechanical value behind automatons – mechanical devices that seem to operate by themselves.

Atticus is learning to engineer a hand-cranked, wooden automaton that makes a marble climb stairs. He’s also exploring the gears and cams that make the mechanics work.

The finished product had Atticus racing the marbles to see who would be the champion.

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