Using cams for an Automaton...

Automata is the plural form of automaton, a self-operating machine.
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automata_(disambiguation)

Your assignment for today is to create a story idea based on a design taken from an automaton. To know more about automata and the mechanisms involved, you can Google or YouTube for it, or refer to the link HERE. For some inspiration, you can refer to this SITE. For some examples, you can refer to this GALLERY.

Please suggest your designs of the automata on one of the following media: PHUN, SKETCHUP, PAPER-BASED (in the form of sketches), and name the file as:

205_AutomataDesign_TanAhSeng

Note: If you are using PHUN or SKETCHUP, please include a text file that explains your design/s further.

Toy Design Journal

Please continue to work on your Design Journals in your Toy Design teams. The focus for today's lessons would be on the following:

• Guiding Questions: What are some other questions that you might have to guide you in your designs?
• Further Research (if need to)
• Detailed Development:
• Material considerations (cardboard, acrylic, compressed foam, balsa wood, pine wood, etc)
• Inclusion of Mechanisms or/and Electronics (where relevant and needed)
• How to construct?
• Version 2 of the toy design model: Please work on your detailed SketchUp models NOW. Work on creating components and parts, and use the 'Make Component' options in the software to create the various interconecting components. Use the format usually used in an 'Exploded View' format to indicate how the various parts come together!

Please submit the Version 2 of your model to me via my gmail address, which I think all of you would have already known. Rename your files as: 209_ToyDesign_TeamX