Tick Tock the Croc is a 51 foot long articulated human powered kinetic sculpture designed and built by a group of makers in Baltimore, where they competed in a kinetic sculpture race. Come meet the Tick Tock team and check out their reptilian friend at World Maker Faire in NYC this September.
“I’m proud that he included the propane tank in the drawing. His curiosity led him to figure out what made the thing work,” says Evan’s father.
Rhode Island School of Design student Joyce Lin takes popsicle stick crafting to new heights with this incredible piece of kinetic sculpture of wings that actually flap.
I took some time to talk to kinetic sculptor Eric Hagan and what he’ll be up to at Maker Faire NY this year.
Lucas Ainsworth and Alyssa Hamel of Kinetic Creatures are already hard at work on the project they have planned for their 2nd appearance at the Maker Faire Bay Area: An enormous, bike-powered, cardboard “Rory the Rhino.” Check out how they are learning to weld, sourcing new parts, and challenging themselves to go bigger for this year’s fair.
Dan Green’s work is sculpture and performance at the same time. He manipulates keyboards and phone cords and crab shells into costumes that are easily anthropomorphized. He is a passionate maker, and a passionate father.
This cocktail shaking machine is based on a turn-of-the-century machine called an “Imperial Shaker,” and was built as part of The Touring Pop-up Sideshow Saloon event organized by the Peerless Prodigies of P.T. Barnum.
