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Automata! Automata! Automata! – who knew?

Oh man, everything else in the shop has come to a screeching halt. Chips are flying, brass is being milled, gongs are ringing! I discovered automata.

This idea stopped me like a ball bat to the forehead. Specifically, take a look at Dug North’s website.

Here is a preview of my first. It should be quite handy. When it is done, it will be a praying machine. I mean really who doesn’t need one of those? I will take all the help I can get!

I cannot stop thinking about this thing. I will post more as I begin to rough in the mechanism.

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4 Responses to “Automata! Automata! Automata! – who knew?”

Six Micro carving chisels for 20 dollars « Make Stuff With Your Hands Says:
March 21, 2010 at 3:49 am

[…] Micro carving chisels for 20 dollars While working on the Praying Machine, I ran into problems carving the wings. I just can’t get up under the edges of the small […]

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Praying Machine flies! « Make Stuff With Your Hands Says:
April 13, 2010 at 3:27 am

[…] prayers are going to Heaven! I have not had a lot of time the last few weeks to work on the Praying machine but I did sneak in a few hours this […]

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Dug North Says:
October 6, 2012 at 1:19 pm

Nice work! Thanks for mention!

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- Jim Says:
  October 8, 2012 at 12:22 pm
  
  Thanks Doug. Your work is really inspiring for me.
  
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