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Automata and Mechanical Toy Plans

Are you interested in making your own automaton? This page has a list of plans for building your own automata out of wood, paper, and sometimes other materials. The list is broken up into three sections:

Free plans available online
Plans that can be purchased in various ways
Books that specifically contain automaton plans

If you find additional sources of plans, send them along via the contact form.

Best of luck and happy building!

Free Automata, Whirligig, Clock, and Mechanical Toy Plans

Frustrated Felines automaton by Paul Spooner - wood automaton
A ramp walker with tinker toys - wooden mechanical toy
Marble climbing machine - hand-cranked wood machine
Paper Mario Automata - paper automaton
Barking Dog Automaton - wood automaton
Mechanical Flying Goose Radiator Cap - kinetic sculpture/whirligig
Galloping Dinosaur - mechanical pull toy
6 wood Clock Plans from - wooden clocks
Jade Dragon Paper Automaton - paper automaton (Donation suggested)
Chuck Dunbar's Whirligig # 46 plans - whirligig
Several paper automata kits by Giuseppe (Pino) Civitarese - paper automata and models
Ramp-walkig Rhino toy by Roberto Lou Ma - mechanical wooden toy
Ramp-walkig Robot toy by Roberto Lou Ma - mechanical wooden toy

Automata and Mechanical Toy Plans Available for Purchase Online

CPR Automaton - wood automaton
Mystery Box by Clayton Boyer - wood automaton
Woodcraft Magazine: Holiday 2005 - with the Exercising Santa by Dug North - wood automaton
MAKE: Halloween Special Edition - with the trick top hat by Dug North - mechanical costume
In My Humble Opinion by Philip Lowndes - wood automaton
Woodworker's Journal, December 2000 with Camelia the Canterin' Camel - wooden pull-toy
Paul Spooner's booklet on mechanisms - with an exploded view of 'Bad News' and complete project plans for 'Bad Babysitter'.

Books that Contain Automata and Mechanical Toy Plans

Making Mad Toys & Mechanical Marvels in Wood by Rodney Frost - wood automata
NOTE: the title above was previously sold as Whacky Toys, Whirligigs, and Whatchamacallits
Automata and Mechanical Toys by Rodney Peppe - wood automata
Making Mechanical Toys by Rodney Peppe - wood automata
Paper Automata: Four Working Models to Cut Out & Glue Together by Rob Ives - paper automata
Walking Automata: A Collection of Self-Moving Models to Cut Out and Make - paper automata
Creative Kinetics: Making Mechanical Marvels in Wood - wood automata
Toys and Models: A Sourcebook of Ideas by Rodney Peppe - wood automata
The Art and Craft of Wooden Toys by Ron Fuller - wood automata
Paper Engineering and Pop-ups For Dummies by Rob Ives - paper models and automata



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