MECHANISMS - How to create a card lever mechanism <photo-caption />

Start with an A4 piece of corrugated card (36kb)

Draw the background shape, try to make the shapes interesting (61kb)

Cut round your background (58kb)

Cut a long and short strip from another piece of corrugated card (55kb)

Cut two holes in the short strip, one in the long strip and one in the background (56kb)

The holes need to be arranged so you create a

Here the long lever has been moved, making the short lever swivel (53kb)

Glue on your figure (Spiderman!) (60kb)

To give more action, Add a second short strip, working off the same long lever (55kb)

Now the two strips move together (57kb)