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CeraCera Design Notes: October 2009

Saturday, October 03, 2009

New Model Design Dairy - Elephant - Part 1

Elephants have been a symbol of wisdom, strength, stability, loyalty, intelligence and many other positive attributes. It is also a symbol of good luck with it's trunk in upright position that some homes display a pair of elephants.

Started design work on elephant automata to add on to our series of Lucky Automata range ( lucky cat, lucky dog, lucky star ).

Picture show the 2nd model that we made after correcting sizes & shapes of some of the parts.


The elephant automata model is to knee with the back legs and raise its head and trunk at the same time. It will require 2 CAMs to drive to drive the various part of the body.

Once the elephant body & head design are done, will move on to work on the back legs (which need to kneel) and the mechanism ............ (to be continued)