Poking around on the internet one day, I found this clever Cat and Mouse Automata from Germany, and decided to try and build it. The plans are available free for download too!
I think it’s cheating to use a laser cutter for this sort of project, but it lets you build it fast and accurately. Within an hour of changing parts of the design to US units (sigh) to match my materials and ten minutes of cutting, I had all the parts ready. Assembly took several days as I glued a few parts at a time.
I’m now inspired to design and build my own automata projects, so stay tuned!
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Hello! This is wonderful. Would you mind sharing your laser-cutter files with the conversion to US units? I would love to make this and I’m just getting started with laser cutting. Thanks very much!
Hi Janet,
Here’s the laser cutting file in Corel Draw: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B3iabVuXfjkeOUVORktpYzJ0WkU
You will have to work out the rest yourself! Please check all the dimensions too. Have fun!
The link no longer works. Could you re-post it?
No worries, I updated my google drive link
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