A few months ago, I got a chance to go visit Ernie Fosselius’ workshop with some of my peers at Make: and it was great to hang out with Ernie as he shared his work with us. Ernie makes automatons, puppets, and human powered machines that are clever and fun. Besides showing his work, there are a lot of gems of wisdom in this video for makers.
I shot this video a few months ago. Since then he’s moved his V8 mechalodeon and put it on his home-made pedal powered vehicle, pictured below.
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Photo: Mark. Interview credit: David. Appearances from Dale and Phillip!
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The crank on the bottom middle toy uses a Geneva drive. I’d never seen the device before finding it last week on Wikipedia’s featured images page. What a lovely bit of engineering.
The crank on the bottom middle toy uses a Geneva drive. I’d never seen the device before finding it last week on Wikipedia’s featured images page. What a lovely bit of engineering.
Long live Hardware Wars!
i’ve been wondering what he’s been up to since “hardware wars”!
Great Imagination and Insperation for everybody from kids to the oldest adults.
Great Imagination and Insperation for everybody from kids to the oldest adults.
Just a note to say that Porklips Now is THE best film parody ever, IMHO.
Does ANYBODY know how I can get a copy of the Fosselius parody “Pork Lips Now”?
I had the “Hardware Wars and other film Farces” VHS that had that on it, but lost it.
Would Fosselius reply to an email?
Thanks,
A
Both of Fosselies’ films can be downloaded in DVD resolution from Caachi – http://caachi.com:
-http://www.caachi.com/Members/luthergr/porklips_now/view
-http://www.caachi.com/Members/michaelwiese/hardware_wars/view