Moving Toys

Learn how to create a mechanism that makes a toy move.

Learn how to use a cam.

The animation on this site shows how a mechanism
using something called a cam animates the chicken.

Choose Mechanisms then Looking at Cams

Take a look at some other examples working on this site.

GrownUps call this kind of toy

Automata

And sometimes they become kinetic sculptures.

Exploding Chair

Sadly only the website, the museum long since disappeared from Covent Garden.

Take a look at some of the incredible automata in the shop.

Try your hand at paper automata