Boing Boing Staging

Magnetic poetry-writer automaton

Today in London’s Spitalfields Market, I was blown away by this wonderful little automaton, a tiny mechanical poet who writes graceful magnetic poetry when you spin a magnet beneath him. The proud maker — who goes by Alefs in Wonderland — let me shoot a little video of it (apologies for the crummy focus later in the shoot).

Miniature paper scribe

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