While most animated machines we offer with every day – whatever 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 creator of such inventions, making automata out of wooden gears, cogs, as well as cams.
[Dug]’s inventions are simple compared to turbine engines, however they still maintain an artistry all their own. With just simple woodworking tools, he’s able to creating moving vignettes of daily scenes, whatever from a pet dog barking at a bird, to Santa Claus gracefully soaring over a home on Christmas Eve.
Below, you’ll discover a video of [Dug]’s creation, ‘An Unwelcome dinner Guest’ – an automated pet dog barking at a wooden bird. There’s likewise a video of him being interviewed by the awesome people at tested last year at the world maker Faire.