DIY paper Mecha!

- Goldrake (aka Grendizer, aka Goldorak) 

- Another version of Goldrake, this time with spacer [source]:

- mini mazinger [source]

- Generic (but really cool) paper-robot [source]:

- and for these kinds of paper toys, this site looks really nice: http://paperkraft.blogspot.com/

Interesting modular toys

Blockheads

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Toy Studio (MIT)

 [source]

In particular this last image suggests an actual setup with small interactive tablet-like devices, that could be combined to form a city or a circuit...
It could be fun to try something like this, and the result would be a mix of my c-cards and Emanuela's microculture.

Origami camera!

[source]

Curved creases

Folding paper along curved lines, can create 3D objects made of paper.

Examples:
- "Fascinating and elegant shapes may be folded from a single planar sheet of material without stretching, tearing or cutting, if one incorporates curved folds into the design." [source]


- "Simple Curved Fold" [source]


- A pattern to print and fold a curved container [source]

- Nice, artistic folded paper [source]

Napier's Bones (or Rods)

- Build your own paper calculator! [instructions]


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This is a black and white image of a set of Napier's bones abacus cards arranged vertically against a black background. The 10 numbers labeled on each card, from left to right, are "1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0". [source]

- NAPIER'S Bones, held in palm of hand. Consisting of ten rods plus two extras, representing squares and cubes [source]

- Mechanical version of Napier's Bones
[source]

Alexander Calder - Hanging interaction

Colourful, exploratory, mobile, low-tech, installations-sculptures disclosing a narrative in time and space.

Apollo and Daphne-interactive sculpture

Apollo and Daphne, by Baroque Italian sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini.
An interactive low-tech installation.

The composition invites the viewer to move around the sculpture, to be told the story of the transformation of Daphne into a bay laurel tree, through a spacial-temporal narrative sequence.

http://www.galleriaborghese.it/borghese/en/edafne.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3RSRrUL1Os&feature=related