Father of Flying Pig (and model monster)
This photo below shows Rob Ives an hour before he lectured about his experience as a design engineer. (The lecture was part of the Improbable Research seminar at Imperial College London, on November 26.) Ives is a master maker of all-paper mechanical toys. His company, Flying Pig, makes punch-out-the-pieces-and-assemble-’em-yourself kits in two forms: pre-printed, pre-scored paper and download-and-printable. Some of the toys are visible here. Ives likes to explain the mechanisms.
Perhaps his most celebrated design is the mechanical Flying Spaghetti Monster model, of whom it is writ: “Once complete turn the handle on this cardboard curiosity and the Flying Spaghetti Monster waves his noodly appendages.” A 40-second-long video shows the creation and life of an FSM.
