Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.
Dale Wood—a maker from Zimbabwe that now lives here in Scotland—has built a life-sized replica of Disney’s WALL-E robot. It’s one of the stand out projects here at the Edinburgh mini Maker Faire, because after all it’s hard to miss a huge yellow cube-shaped robot to moves and talks.
I talked to Dale about WALL-E and how he intends to push the build forward, and it sounds like next year WALL-E will be following him around the faire.
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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.
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Escape to an island of imagination + innovation as Maker Faire Bay Area returns for its 16th iteration!
This post is coming to you live from the Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire—returning to Edinburgh for the second time—being held at the Summerhall here this weekend as part of the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
