Hinge Man | Malayalam
Channel: Arvind Gupta
Date: 21/04/2016

We are going to make a very interesting Hinge-man – a special person who can move his arms and legs and all his limbs in various directions. You will need a stapler, card sheet and scissors. Here are the various body parts drawn or printed on a card sheet. For ease all the limbs have been made rectangular. First cut all the rectangular limbs. Finally ROUND out all the corners of the limbs. This is very important. Here you have the body and the limbs all arranged. Take the two leg parts – overlap them and staple them together. Stapler is something which is easily available. Now you will be able to rotate the lower limb with respect to the upper limb. In this way first we attach two limbs together. All the hinges are MOVABLE. Now we will attach the shoulder limbs to the body. First align the shoulders to the body and then staple them at 45-degrees. Now you will be able to move the shoulder with respect to the body. Now we will attach all the limbs to the body. Now we will attach ALL the limbs to the body. You will be able to rotate all the body parts with respect to the body.  You will be able to simulate many Yoga Postures with the Hinge-Man.  The man could be running, swimming, jumping or doing some physical exercise or just standing akimbo. Finally the man is standing cross-legged.
You can also make a card sheet SKELETON – and then make the skeleton move his limbs and arms, dance or run according to your sweet wish. 

This work is supported by IUCAA (www.iucaa.in) and TATA Trust (www.tata.com/aboutus/sub_index/Tata-trusts)

Credits:,Ashok Rupner, Manish Jain, Pradnya Pujari, Shivaji Mane, Jyoti Hiremath, Arvind Gupta, Vidula Mhaiskar

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