Snake charmer, a LEGO automaton
As a kid I used to think this was how magicians did the standing rope trick. I was wrong of course, but I ve always wondered if the extending mechanism I imagined would work. A charmed snake seemed like the perfect vehicle to finally try it. I couldn t show much of the inner workings without taking it all apart again just when it had it perfectly tuned, but there s three sets of driven rubber wheels guiding the snake, a rather nifty flywheel variation to wind and unwind it, and the charmer s upper body an
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