Mechanics for Creating Wooden Automatons
Link Cutting and Drilling
A course by Eduardo Salzane , Artist
About the video: Link Cutting and Drilling
Overview
“Here, I'll explain how to cut and drill the links that will give our pair of wings movement. ”
In this video lesson Eduardo Salzane addresses the topic: Link Cutting and Drilling, which is part of the Domestika online course: Mechanics for Creating Wooden Automatons. Learn to build gears, cranks, and links with simple tools to create moving sculptures that simulate wings flapping..
Partial transcription of the video
“Link cutting and drilling In this class, I will cut, drill and pre-assemble the links. To create the links, I used a plywood sheet with a thickness of 10 millimeters. All parts were taken from the same plate. Since we have a thickness of 10 millimeters, the other measure that is standardized here is the width of these bars, that is, 15 millimeters, as we will see in the drawing. This is the width of all bars of all the links that we will cut in this class. 15 millimeters, and the thickness of 10 millimeters, which is the measurement of the plate. For the cuts, let's define a width of 15 mil...”
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Course summary for: Mechanics for Creating Wooden Automatons
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Category
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Areas
Art Toys, Character Design, Sculpture, Toy Design, Woodworking

Eduardo Salzane
A course by Eduardo Salzane
Graduated in social communication from Unesp, artist Eduardo Salzane has already worked with authorial photography, puppet theater and some circus modalities before specializing in the universe of automatons — sculptures that move from a crank.
He has given workshops at different institutions throughout Brazil and his works have been exhibited in several galleries in the interior of São Paulo and at the Ecomuseum of Itaipu, in Foz do Iguaçu. Currently, he develops his work with reused wood and creates a universe of poetry in motion in each of his pieces.
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