New! Gear Scotch Yoke, Essential Mechanism to Download and Make

Turn the handle on the Geared Scotch Yoke Essential Mechanism and the central push rod rises slowly up and down. Use the project as an exercise in pure paper engineering or as the starting point for your own character based paper automata. This project comes in two version,

Print and Make – a pdf file for you to print out onto thin card then cut out with your scissors.

Cutting Machine Pack – A zip file packed with files. Silhouette Studio files ready for you to use with your Silhouette Cameo 3, svg files for use with other cutting machines, background jpeg images as well as the original Print-and-Make jpeg.

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Instagram Live : Designing a Paper Whale

To go with the geared scotch yoke mechanism, I’ll be designing the whale automata. As an experiment, I’m going to live stream the design process on Instagram. Follow me at @robivescom and you will be able to watch as I endeavor to make a paper whale!
I’ll be live streaming at 2pm GMT on Wed 12th June. See you there!

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Monthly Membership

Following chats with several prospective members I’ve decided to try offering monthly membership. This will be for a trial period, to see how it goes. Monthly Membership offers all the same benefits of Annual Membership for an automated monthly  fee of £4/$5.50/€4.50

For this you receive:

• Free access to all the projects on the site
• Dozens and dozen and dozen of amazing paper projects!
• Download instructions as PDF files

If it goes well I’ll make it a permanent feature. Don’t worry, if you sign up, your membership will remain until you choose to unsubscribe.

Save 50% by signing up for annual membership!

I’ve also tweaked the annual membership prices to make them even better value for money. (£25/$35/€28.50)

Thanks for your support and interest! I literally couldn’t run this website without you!

Sign up for annual or monthly membership now!

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