Automatons are a form of mechanical toy designed to either serve as entertainment or to actually serve a function. Early robots were defined as automatons. For this project, we were to design an automaton using certain principles of mechanics such as gears, pistons, levers, and many others.
My automaton I designed to look like an old car engine. The crankshaft design I utilized was one I made up, using two reciprocating shafts. One shaft has a crank that was turned, which transferred its power to the other shaft with rubber bands, which turned a fan attached to the second shaft. I then decorated it with spray paint and various bits of junk to create an atmosphere sort of like a "mechanical wasteland."
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