Thursday, March 25, 2010

Cardboard Automaton: A Clicking Mechanism

Albeit, the design of my automaton is simple however its focus was aimed toward noise-making rather than full-fledged narrative. The clean, negative space-heavy aesthetic isolates and accentuates the clicking sound (as well as the gears), which is generated by bobby pins:

Note the arrangement of the pins (sort of a musical box effect). Though it's not a video (I didn't have one at ready disposal), I recorded an audio clip of my mechanism in motion:



Here is the side, where cranking takes place.

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