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 […]
I found CTP in the artbot section of Robogames with his Arca Musarithmica. Check out his photoset of it and watch the video. This experimental musical instrument gets it’s name from an autonomous musical instrument invented by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, in the 16th centurey. Kircher was a brilliant inventor, scientist, and creator, but […]
Heathkit ad from Scientific American 1977: 8-bit computer, 16-bit computer, video terminal and a paper tape reader/punch – Link.
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 […]
This looks like a lot of fun (and an simple kit to make) – “This very unusual kit emits random pops and random explosions of bright white light when it is in the dark (kit has a CDS cell to sense the absence of light). This kit produces one of the most unusual “out-of-this-world” effects. […]
The MAKE store just added a couple fun items — MiniPOV v2 Kit – Inexpensive Persistence of Vision A second generation of original MiniPOV, Adafruit Industries upgraded this toy to make it easier for people to build: no microcontroller-programming device is needed, and the source code is in C not assembly. And it includes high […]
Watch the Video Rob took some great photos. Check them out!
