Miniature cardboard kinetic sculptures

Brad Litwin creates exquisite miniature hand-cranked kinetic sculptures from cardboard and "a few bits of wood, metal, or plastic." They're $45/each or $35 as a kit. Mechanicards

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Utterly charming.
Chris Schaie

Absolutely Wonderful, as a fan(and creator)of kinetic works myself, these are charming.
MauiMaker

These, and his earlier mechanical creations, are awesome. I would love to see them come with educational materials explaining the tech constructs (gears, etc) behind them. Maybe as instructables or thingiverse works, but with more background.
Hmmm, is there a site for such works? (instructables + science/tech learning materials behind the project)
fubbs

thanks for posting this.
skinnergy

Bradley Litwin is also a fine musician. That’s him playing guitar and singing on the soundtrack to the video of his great little sculptures.
- kenuto
  
  Does the sound track come with the card purchase? I didn’t think so.
  Well, I sure would like to purchase the music to assist my enjoyment of these fantastic devices!
  
  Thank you for the feel good.
  
  Kenny O
David Pescovitz

How cool! Thanks!
alllie

It’s hard not to buy them all then fantasize about my heirs taking them to the Antiques Road Show in a hundred years.
Anonymous

wow, they’re like some sort of steampunk DS…