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Cardboard Engineering Source Books

“a huge boost to mechanisms work in schools”
Times Educational Supplement.


The book centres around ten extendable cardboard engineering projects which introduce many mechanisms, from simple cams to crank sliders and swash plates

Ten Projects
(click for details)
Single Cam
Rocking Platform
Multi Cam
Crank Slider
Double Crank Slider
Single Twister
Double Twister
Swash Plate
Snap-Up Cube
Snap-Up Octahedron

Each project comprises fully illustrated clear instructions, photocopiable pages of all the parts needed to make a complete automaton and a page of ideas to extend the project. Simply photocopy the pages onto thin card and away you go!
As well as the ten projects, the book also includes the following sections

• explaining mechanisms
• the mathematics of mechanisms
• tips for construction
• alternative parts to extend the models
• web links
• glossary of terms
• detailed lessons plans

The price of £29.95 includes a licence for the purchaser to make unlimited photocopies of the model parts for their own use; all for the price of less than ten of our automata kits!

Ten projects, endless possibilities!

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