Make you own Count Binface
A #ClothesPegAutomata
I’m running a “Making Clothes Peg Automata” workshop at this year’s EMFcamp. It’s happening on Sunday at 14:30.
If you’re reading this from anywhere other than the field right now, I’m afraid you’ve missed your chance, I’m writing this from a tent in the middle of the camp!
The good news is that the projects we’ll be working on are available to download here, so you can still join in from home.
I’ve brought three main projects for people to choose from, graded in increasing order of difficulty: Clothes Peg Butterfly, Dipper Bird, and a special new one created just for the show, Count Binface.
If you’re a premium subscriber, firstly: thank you. Secondly: you’ll find all the downloadable files waiting for you at the foot of this page.
For the workshop, I wanted to create a complete pack that I could hand out so visitors could work fairly autonomously. I set about making an A6 instruction booklet: four pages of guidance that could be printed onto a single double‑sided A5 sheet.
After a bit of experimenting, I found a layout that lets you print one side, flip the sheet, feed it back into the printer, and print the same file again. That gives you a single A4 sheet you can cut in half to produce two identical A6 leaflets, simple, efficient, and perfect for a busy workshop.
I’m now spending my evenings at EMF camp pre‑drilling clothes pegs, folding instruction sheets, and assembling little Clothes Peg Automata packs ready for the workshop. It’s a wonderfully fiddly way to wind down after a day in the field.
Hopefully I’ll see some of you there!
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