SkyRail is a web based project commissioned in 2006 by the NMGW Waterfront Museum, Swansea and co-ordinated by Cywaith Cymru, Artworks Wales.

In SkyRail you can easily build your own quirky machine that has intricate mechanical components. Watch your mechanisms in motion, leaving a trail as they go. Check out saved inventions as they gradually parade across the screen. SkyRail manifests as a biological timepiece built with the production values of early watchmakers whose skills were translated to the creation of automata, (mechanical lifeforms driven by cogs.) Here these intricacies of engineering are translated to the computer with the tiny cogs and chains replaced by computational mechanisms.

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SkyRail online project