Automata

This week on Wednesday, I made an Automata as a project. An Automata is a cardboard toy which turns one cam to make another cam move.  A cam is a cardboard circle.  I took a cardboard box from home and with the help of some friends, we decorated it.  

So the process to make it was, first start with cutting the bottom of the box out, then cutting out circles (cams).  This was really hard because the cardboard was really thick. We had to use a craft knife as the scissors weren't working very well. Once we had cut all the cams it was time to stick them onto the skewers. When me and Wolfe put the cams on the skewers we then hot glued them to the skewers to keep them from falling off. After that we put three holes in the box for the skewers to go into, before we put the top skewer in we hot glued a straw to keep the top skewers spinning properly.

Once all of that was done Wolfe drew a frog that when you spin it it dies. He glued it on and we were almost done the last thing we needed to do was decorate it. The first thing Wolfe did to decorate it was write a sign what says A Frog's Life. As soon as he finished him and I drew some trees, bushes and a pond. Then we got some cardboard and cut out the trees and bushes and a pond we stuck them onto some cardboard and then we were finally done.