All photo by Ed Troxell
There are good days and bad days here at the MAKE offices. Mostly good, although sometimes the days can be long and very, very busy — like 2 days before the next issue goes to the printer or a week before Maker Faire.
The day Captain Yo came to visit was a good day.
The Captain had read that one of our talented engineering interns, Eric Chu, was a yo-yo enthusiast and since he lived nearby, he’d contacted us to arrange a meeting. We’d, of course, invited him over to meet Eric and show us his wares.
Captain Yo (aka Don Watson) is an author, inventor and award-winning yo-yo player. His visit to our offices turned into a show-and-tell, a physics lesson, and a performance or two. At first just Eric and he were conversing, then slowly but surely more and more of us in the office came into the conversation to have a look inside his several yo-yo cases; listen to a story or two about past events and his inventions; and glimpse a fancy trick or two.
All in the name of work!
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Don also has a series of books titled “Yo-Yo Physics: An Engineer’s Notebook”. Each book explores a certain element of the yo-yo from an engineer’s perspective. For example, the first book is about Radius of Gyration, the next covers Moment of Inertia and so on.
These books appear to be available on http://www.yoyoguy.com/PL/2/55/Yo-yo-Books
Don also has a series of books titled “Yo-Yo Physics: An Engineer’s Notebook”. Each book explores a certain element of the yo-yo from an engineer’s perspective. For example, the first book is about Radius of Gyration, the next covers Moment of Inertia and so on.
These books appear to be available on http://www.yoyoguy.com/PL/2/55/Yo-yo-Books