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This resource provides guidance and ideas for ways in which pneumatics can be utilised in model making (NGfL Cymru)
Two Opus publications looking at gears and mechanisms.(S.Smith)
Cam mechanisms operate levers to create a toy.
Looking at pneumatic mechanisms and how they may cause a lever to move.
Design your own siege engine and change variables to try out an interactive mangonel.
An introduction to mechanisms, levers and linkages using familiar objects as examples (Michelle Milligan - St David’s High School)