Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Woodworking has always been fascinating to me. Just think of all the hard work that goes into creating perfect wooden objects. I’m ...

While most animated machines we deal with every day – everything from clocks to cars to computers – are made of metal, there is an art to creating automated objects out of wood. [Dug North] is a ...

Here is another fun homemade iPhone dock for today, the Wooden Automata iPhone Dock. The Wooden Automata iPhone Dock uses a hand crank system to switch the iPhone from landscape to portrait mode, ...

I’m showing off a unique vintage wooden automaton that I recently found. This hand-carved figure has an amusing and surprising moving part that makes it a real conversation starter. Watch as I ...

No glue, no tools, and no microprocessors are required to assemble your own simple robot using The Designing Automata Kit, available in the west thanks to the MAKE Store. See it as a complex ...

Woodworking has always been fascinating to me. Just think of all the hard work that goes into creating perfect wooden objects. I’m especially intrigued when the objects are super tiny. It takes an ...