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PCB making

PCB making

Here’s another PCB making how-to, this one from Per Svensson – “In this album I’ll show how I go about making my own PCB:s in a really simple way. I don’t use one single tool that isn’t already available in your kitchen. No fancy etch tanks, pumps or uv lamps are needed. Read on and […]

Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang’s Steambots

Make Podcast: I-Wei Huang’s Steambots

After interviewing I-Wei, I told him that his robots reminded me of Miyazaki’s animation work and he told me that he was in fact an animator by day and steam-roboteer at night and found inspiration with Miyazaki’s work. The walking steambot captured my imagination. I want to see one of those locomotive size walking down […]

Make: Podcast – Survival Research Labs Walkthrough

Make: Podcast – Survival Research Labs Walkthrough

quality=”high” width=”320″ height=”256″ name=”movie” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” pluginspage=”http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer”> While in San Francisco, I was invited to videotape a walkthrough of the Survival Reasearch Labs. SRL has been making industrial sized remote control machines and performing with them around the world since 1978. Violet Blue was my host and she showed me the workshop, machines and materials that […]