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title: "Making Moving Toys and Automata"
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# Comprehensive mechanical design insights Diverse traditional automata mechanisms Hands-on DIY craft projects Making Moving Toys and Automata

**Price:** ₹ 4475
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> ⚙️ Bring motion to your creativity — craft the extraordinary!

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- **What is this?** Making Moving Toys and Automata
- **How much does it cost?** ₹ 4475 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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## Key Features

- • **Step-by-step automata creation:** Build captivating kinetic sculptures with clear, approachable instructions.
- • **Explore versatile materials & tools:** From wood to feathers, craft with what inspires you.
- • **Master timeless mechanical artistry:** Unlock centuries of moving toy secrets with expert guidance.
- • **Global inspiration meets practical design:** Discover worldwide examples fueling your creative edge.
- • **Perfect for creative professionals & hobbyists:** Elevate your maker skills and impress your network with unique mechanical art.

## Overview

Making Moving Toys and Automata by Robert Race is a richly illustrated guide that explores traditional mechanical toys and automata. It offers detailed explanations of mechanisms, materials, and step-by-step projects using accessible tools like wood, wire, and paper. Ideal for hobbyists and creative professionals, this book inspires hands-on learning and innovative design, backed by a strong 4.3-star rating and global craft influences.

## Description

This beautiful book draws on Robert Race's extensive collection of traditional moving toys, looking at the ways the makers have achieved remarkable and varied results, often with very limited resources. Each chapter begins by looking at the mechanisms and materials used in some of these traditional moving toys, goes on to consider possible variations, and describes how to make a related moving toy. It continues, from this basis, to develop a design for an automaton. The book shows that designing and making these simple but wonderfully satisfying mechanical devices is fun, and that good results can be achieved in many different ways, using a variety of materials, tools and equipment such as wood and wire, card and paper, bamboo, string, tin plate and feathers.

Review: Empfehlenswert - Tolle Anregungen, gut gemacht.
Review: I really liked this book. - This is the second book I've gotten from Robert Race and I like it. It's cleanly written with good descriptions of the mechanisms of the toys and automata. Lots of examples and things to make and samples from all over the world as well as projects of his own showing how to utilize the ideas of that chapter. I'm trying to learn how to make moving art and this was definitely a big help in getting me going in the right direction.

## Features

- Item Trademark: CROWOOD PRESS (UK)
- manufacturer: The Crowood Press Ltd
- Item Weight: grams, pounds, 0.54895103238, 249.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #331,941 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #398 in Toy & Model Crafts & Hobbies #688 in Mechanical Engineering #135,498 in Textbooks & Study Guides |
| Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 108 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Empfehlenswert
*by B***P on 26 October 2019*

Tolle Anregungen, gut gemacht.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I really liked this book.
*by J***Y on 4 January 2020*

This is the second book I've gotten from Robert Race and I like it. It's cleanly written with good descriptions of the mechanisms of the toys and automata. Lots of examples and things to make and samples from all over the world as well as projects of his own showing how to utilize the ideas of that chapter. I'm trying to learn how to make moving art and this was definitely a big help in getting me going in the right direction.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Regalo ideale per gli appassionati
*by C***I on 2 January 2022*

Dalle basi, alle cose un po' più avanzate, con esempi pratici su come fare un automata.

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*Last updated: 2026-07-21*