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1–31 October 2026 · PAPER ENGINEERING #PopUpTober 2026 — 31 days of pop-up prompts Keith Allen’s annual 31-day pop-up challenge returns, with Chibitronics adding a LightUpPopUpTober track for makers who want to…

Rediscovered through Papermau this September, a 2020 museum collection offers four downloadable models with room for personal choices of colour and detail.

Rob Ives’s August release gives a paper cat an intermittent purr using a partly toothed wheel: a small exploration of mechanical sound.

Released on 31 August, Rob Ives’s corrugated-card goose turns a rocking body into a pecking action through a visible geared mechanism.

Vacheron Constantin’s new concept watches compress micro-origami and layered cotton-paper sculpture into only a few millimetres of dial space.

Cybèle Young’s Kamiphony turns Japanese paper, movement, sound and light into a room-sized ensemble of kinetic paper machines.

Tom Haney, Fi Henshall, Carlos Zapata and Joseph Wallace join forces in Hastings to build a large mobile automaton from locally sourced reclaimed materials.

Ensky’s September 2026 Paper Theater kit builds depth by stacking precisely laser-cut paper layers rather than by conventional folded-volume construction.

Qiuwen Wen turns Tyvek paper, hand-cut feathers, metal frames and internal light into a suspended flock for Homo Faber 2026 in Venice.

The September–October 2026 issue of Automata Magazine moves from the history of the Fourteen Balls Toy Company to cam design, prototyping and contemporary automata.