Free plans for a ramp-walking wooden rhino toy
Exclusive: The Automata / Automaton Blog is please to present this set of wooden toy plans!
Retired civil engineer, cartoonist, automata & toy maker Roberto Lou Ma (creator of the ramp-walking robot figure) has been so generous as to create and share this set of instructions on how to make a ramp-walking rhinoceros. The figure uses geometric figures and straight cuts, so it should be fairly easy for everyone to make.
Click on each of the images below for full-sized plans and patterns. Download these to your computer or print them directly from your browser window (being sure that they are at full size).
Step 1: Intro to the wooden rhino ramp walker toy
Step 2: Patterns for rhino ramp walker toy
Step 3: Assembly instructions for the rhino ramp walker
Step 4: Hinge and glue details for the ramp walker
Step 5: Making the ramp for the rhino to walk upon
Thanks to Roberto Lou Ma for the wonderful set of mechanical toy plans!
Check out more cool creations by Roberto Lou Ma on his YouTube channel.
Labels: animals, DIY, gravity, plans, ramp walker, Roberto LouMa
13 Comments:
This is great stuff !
Thanks a lot to Roberto and to you Dug.
Would be very interesting to see also how the robot is made.
You can watch Walking Rhino in action at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWYQS8H1X_g
Traced components from download yield an excellent result, however figured dimensions are in many cases wrong to scale.
Fabrice:
I am preparing a set of instructions for making the Walking Robot. I will send them to Dug as soon as I have them ready, just give me a little time.
Watch this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80s1sIvYk0A
Thank you :)
Thanks for the detailed instructions. I have always wondered how these things actually work.
I love this toys!!! I have been looking all over to learn how to make them!!!
Thank you!!!
My Rhino wont walk..tried everything inc ramp gradient etc. very accurately made..
Do the feet have to be one complete sweep of 8 " radius or slightly swept in to the join....?
Gracias, Rlouma.
Acabo de construir un rinoceronte usando tus diseños, pero he usado cartón de una caja de cereales. Sería para mí un placer mostrártelo si me indicas como puedo enviarte las fotos y vídeo.
Saludos!
Gracias por compartir tus juguetes caminantes son divertidos y geniaIes.
Quiero hacer un caminante cómo un humano. Alguien tiene un planito de las piernas solamente! Gracias...
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