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Mechanical linkage copying toy
Trying to remember how to build a toy that I had as a kid...
It had a few bars, with swivel points and fixed points. You would insert a pen in one end and trace a drawing with the other and it would be copied over (but upside down.) I think I can make that part out of trial and error, however the part that I cant fumble thru just now is where by changing a few locations you could make it a reduction or enlargement of the original picture.
Tried googling for various incarnations of wooden copying toys but couldn't see it... _________________ They say that he crossed the fine line, from insanity to genius.
Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:00 pm
Fish_in_a_Barrel
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it's not what I remember, but it's close... _________________ They say that he crossed the fine line, from insanity to genius.
Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:23 pm
Fish_in_a_Barrel
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And then he answers his own question...
Googling "pantograph" gives me the toy I was thinking of...
Apologies for excess thread _________________ They say that he crossed the fine line, from insanity to genius.
Mon Apr 18, 2011 3:27 pm
Philip Experienced Roboteer
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I think it might have been a Sketch-a-graph. http://www.toysonline.com.au/Sketch-a-graph-p/crn-839558.htm That is what I remember from around the 1970s. _________________ So even the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams and our river systems
Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:19 pm
Spockie-Tech Site Admin
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I remember them too ! But I always liked the Spirograph patterns better Use to spend hours doing them..
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=spirograph&search=Search _________________ Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people
Mon Apr 18, 2011 8:18 pm
Vignesh
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Hey! My mom bought me that once... It was fun Ive now passed it on to my younger cousins _________________ Viggy!
1st Robot in progress!
Mon Apr 18, 2011 9:05 pm
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Ive now passed it on to my younger cousins