Contraption Cart Automata by Shasa Bolton

Name: Contraption Cart Automata by Shasa Bolton
Address: 2/66 Main Street, Sheffield, TAS, 7306, AU
Telephone: +61455295848

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Visit our interactive gallery in Sheffield, Tasmania. Explore moving sculptures, automata, and marble runs in person or on our online store.

Mechanical designer, Shasa Bolton, creates mechanical curiosities, interactive machines, and custom animatronics. Mechanical sculpture design and gallery. Automata, mechanical toys, animatronics. https://www.contraptioncart.com

03/11/2026

Build an animatronic talking head that you can actually have a conversation with. Here is a quick fly through the build.

29/10/2026

Sheffield, Tasmania - moving sculpture gallery, open to visit, kids and adults. 2/66 main st.

24/10/2026

Here is a demo of my talking head animatronic kit playing a game of 20 questions.

21/10/2026

It is exciting to finally be able to make an animatronic and have no idea what it will say to me. I have been experimenting with getting this guy to use cold reading techniques that fortune tellers use. He also plays word games and talks philosophy. This is a demo of a new animatronic kit I am putting out soon. You can run him from your phone, so no speaker, microphone or camera need to be connected. The app runs in the browser so you can just scan the QR code on his forehead and start chatting with him.

17/10/2026

I have a new animatronic talking head kit coming soon. There is a bit of work behind this one. Designing the circuitboard, software, and mechanisms. I look forward to seeing what people do with it.

19/08/2026

Making some small improvements to this zoetrope I made a few years ago. These brass caps will not wear down so quickly as the wood. This will be up to watch in the new contraption gallery in Sheffield soon

16/07/2026

I have just put up these new Magnetic Marble run plans for download on my etsy store. Make endless tracks on your fridge or whiteboard. Laser cutter or scroll saw plans now on my etsy store. Private message me for the direct link.

27/06/2026

I have been building a Jaffa run for the Latrobe Chocolate festival. After a lot of smashed jaffas, here it is.

22/05/2026

I have been experimenting with a marble lifter idea. Here is a prototype. It works, but not reliably. Especially if I wind quickly. The obvious solution is to increase the tipping angle with a larger crank offset, but it will start to take up too much space in the area available for the run. Anyway it seemed like an interesting idea to try as I have not seen it done before.

12/02/2026

Make objects appear and vanish with this Laser etched Magic drawer box. Now available fully assembled, as a kit, or digital download plans to cut yourself.
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Address

2/66 Main Street
Sheffield, TAS
7306

Telephone

+61455295848

Website

https://www.etsy.com/shop/contraptioncart/

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