YogaMata - One of our failed automata model

Just like there is daylight and night, we have good design and failed design. Actually, there are many designs that we have discarded since day one but have decided to capture them in our blog. This is a model that we named YoGaMata that is a paper model that did yoga pose. We spent 3 weeks in the past month on this design. The picture show the mechanism has a problem of tilting the model to one side. This is because the pivot was designed to lift the model on one side instead of in the center of the body. Any way, we are not really happy with this one and have decided to KIV our orginally planned YogaMata series.

New Automata model - SwimMata

Yes, it has been a long time since we stopped designing automata due to the various problems that we faced. We received many msgs telling us the models we design are fascinating and impressive. There are also people sending encouraging msgs to us. We have since picked up fr where we left and completed the swimmer model. That was after about 5-6 revision before we have the model working.
Turn the handle and enjoy swimming in the blue ocean.
We are at the final stage of writing instruction manual and will release the model soon.
We would also like to thank all the people that send us very encouraging msgs, thank you.

Desiging SwimMata

As we were slowly picking up automata design, it took us about 3-4wks and 6 revision before coming out with a satisfactory model. The pictures show some of the parts that we put together during rev 3 and 4.
Paper clips , pins and any other simple parts as weight to fine tune the mechanism. This was about 2 revisions before the final model.