Our pal I-Wei Huang, of Crabfu Steamworks, has issued a challenge on the Trossen Robotics Forums. It’s a contest, judged my I-Wei, to find the most “characterful” robot. He writes: To bring a bunch of hardware the illusion of life and character. This is NOT about AI or fancy software or hardware. It’s not to […]
The Buckminster Fuller Institute has an annual Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a $100,000 prize for “comprehensive solutions that radically advance human well-being and ecosystem health.” The 2008 prize was awarded in June, in NYC. Check out their Challenge webpage for a list of submissions and winners. The 2009 Challenge will begin this fall. Welcome to the […]
Trossen Robotics has announced the winners of their latest Trossen Robotics Community building contest. This scratch-built Wall-E, by TRC member 4mem8, won first prize (a SG-5UT Robotic Arm). Trossen writes: We got to watch 4mem8 bring this guy to life and document every painstaking step that he took building this Wall-E robot from scratch. That’s […]
I’m one of those people who has mixed feelings when I see altered books (and chairs made of books!) – I love the creativity, but I hate seeing books full of information destroyed. If you have a book you’ve found at a yard sale that you want to fix up, or a favorite book that […]
Dover Publications has a really extensive catalog, everything from coloring and maze books to clip art to engineering and tech books. They’re the publishers of the wonderful 507 Mechanical Movements. You can sign up here for the Dover Sampler – every week they send out an email with links to book content. It’s a complete […]
Look at this amazing chair by David Karoff, on Rag and Bone Bindery’s blog – they saw it at Myopic Books in Providence, Rhode Island. Rhode Island artist David Karoff welded the chair and attached the paperbacks: they have holes drilled though their insides and are slipped onto a hidden rebar frame. All of the […]
Tyler over at Oddstrument Collection is running a garden instrument contest this summer. Send in your garden musical instruments. Things like wind chimes, outdoor gongs, bells, fountains, musical sculptures, etc. Think solar, wind, water powered and beyond. Let us know if you enter!
