Dear woman, you have done more for my grasp of automata in this brief video that YEARS of my trying to understand it from all other manners tried! Brilliant job.
Very similar construction to old-school computing devices. For example, at 5:34, consider the wheels on the right. When you turn the crank around once, the wheel on that axle goes around once. But the vertical shaft will spin as a proportion of the first wheel 's circumference and the track it makes on the horizontal wheel. That is, this simple device multiplies and divides. If the wheels in the automata don't slip, you'll see that the rightmost vertical shaft spins faster than the horizontal shaft.
Love automata, I have built a number of large model workshops with men wearing overalls working various types of wood working machines. I also built and enjoyed harmograph drawing machines.
Wonderfully clear explanations and examples. I've been wanting to do this for a long time with my grandchildren your video is simply the best .Thank you!
Wow wow wow! I learnt so much in this short video that I haven’t been able to watching these long videos of other makers. Thank you so much for explaining the basic physics and principles like what difference does a hole in the middle and hole on the side makes etc. please make more automata videos. Would love to learn from you. If you offer any courses please let me know. ❤️👏🏽🤩
Great video! I appreciate the simple explanation you give. I myself have been threatening to make an automata for years now…I took a kinematics class at start of Covid and got thrown off making a mechanism…soon!
All the small wood pieces are there to add stability, I just cut them from scraps I had with a saw and then glued them. The tube was just a little cardboard tube from a roll of plastic bags! These parts aren't essential, but they do make the workings smoother and more stable x
