National Geographic interviews Wu Yulu, a chinese farmer obsessed with building walking machines. Wu was ridiculed for a long time because of his mechanical creativity, but recently has gained recognition for his self-taught skills after being named China’s most innovative farmer. Over the years he’s managed to construct some pretty awesome automatons from salvaged materials. […]
Greg Gage from Backyard Brains demonstrates their SpikerBox kit, which lets you experiment with cockroach neurons. Becky and Greg surgically remove a cockroach leg and listen to the neurons firing. This is an archived clip from Make: Live, which was originally broadcasted on 7/29/11. Go to https://makezine.com/live/ for information about the show, chat transcripts, and details on the next show.
Adrianne Wortzel first saw Tickle-Me-Elmo-TMX during her residency in the Artificial Intelligence Lab in Zurich, Switzerland, and noticed something interesting about the robotic toy. It wasn’t long before she amassed an army of them. And what army is complete without synchronized maneuvers…
The full piece (just robots):
http://www.vimeo.com/31393684
More of Adrianne’s Work:
http://www.adriannewortzel.com
An interview with photographer/maker Cris Benton at Maker Faire Bay Area 2010.
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2010/06/cris_bentons_pole_aerial_photograph.html
Harvey Moon’s Drawing Machine is is not just a controllable pen attached suspending it over a page, it’s a tool for making beautiful artwork. Taking its cues from computer data, the Drawing Machine can reproduce any digitized picture or photograph, and the programmer’s touch introduces noise in the system. The results are more akin to print-making in that every creation is unique with its own idiosyncrasies. Filmed at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. http://unanything.com/ http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5436
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Shawna Peterson of Peterson Neon gave demos on neon designs and tube bending at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011. Nearly every piece of neon signage in existence still must be made by hand and Miss Peterson is continuing a master-and-apprentice tradition by making these artistic works.
http://www.petersonneon.com/
http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/5174
David Simpson was contacted by MAKE to create a spying device, so he came up with Bug-In-A-Book, a wireless listening device embedded in a hollowed out book. As Simpson explains at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011, a project using scavenged technology has flowered into a product with a kit that diy folks can build and experience for themselves.
http://www.bug-in-a-book.net/home.html
http://makerfaire.com/pub/e/4954
