Uploaded December 2009 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
thehouseofautomata.com
This is the prototype of a piece of classic apparatus that we are making inspired by the age of Robert Houdin. The finished head will awaken and perform powered by a precision clockwork motor (not by Maria!).
Made of strong papier mache, gessoed and painted with leather eyelids and fine glass eyes in the tradition of the Parisian automata makers.
Designed to produce one or two items from the mouth and top of the head. The finished Satyr is viewable in HD at:
youtube.com/watch?v=qgHtxlmGoyI
thehouseofautomata.com
This is the prototype of a piece of classic apparatus that we are making inspired by the age of Robert Houdin. The finished head will awaken and perform powered by a precision clockwork motor (not by Maria!).
Made of strong papier mache, gessoed and painted with leather eyelids and fine glass eyes in the tradition of the Parisian automata makers.
Designed to produce one or two items from the mouth and top of the head. The finished Satyr is viewable in HD at:
youtube.com/watch?v=qgHtxlmGoyI
