Who makes your models
Atlas Kinetics is Adrien, who designs the models, a small team who prepare the kits, and 3D printers running batch after batch. Parcels leave from France.
Since 2025
Adrien is an industrial designer. One evening he prints a gear, spins it with a fingertip and cannot stop. Through 2025 the prototypes pile up on his desk; in 2026 the shop opens with one rule: once built, every mechanism has to turn.
The cut-wood models he found in shops were good-looking but flat. He wanted depth, accurate teeth and shafts without play. 3D printing in wood-filled PLA allows both.
He draws each model, prints it, builds it, sometimes breaks it, and reworks it, often more than twelve times, until it goes together without forcing. Only then does the batch start.
« A good mechanism is one you want to take apart just for the pleasure of building it again. »
The route a kit takes
Five steps separate the CAD file from the parcel you open.
- 1
Design
Adrien draws the mechanism in parametric CAD, works out the gear ratios and sets clearances to a tenth of a millimetre. The model is then prototyped and corrected, usually over more than a dozen versions.
- 2
Printing
Parts are printed in small batches, in PLA filled with wood fibre. The material goes down layer by layer, only where it is needed.
- 3
Sorting
Every part is detached, cleaned and bagged with the others from its assembly step, so you only take out of the box what you need.
- 4
Checking
Before the box is closed, we count the parts and the screws. If something is still missing when it arrives, we send you the part free of charge.
- 5
Packing
The kit is packed with its illustrated instructions and leaves France as a tracked parcel. If you get stuck while building, the workshop replies by email within 24 business hours.
Build your first mechanism this weekend
An Alpha model takes one evening. Order before 18:00 (Paris time) and it leaves the next business day.