This is art – but it’s also geeky art. Italian artist Andrea Petrachi builds these wonderful looking, fantasy, robotic constructs from bits and pieces that have been discarded. He uses lens, cameras and doll parts for heads, for example, forks for hands and wire for legs. I think they’re stunning and a successfully odd mix […]
Fan built Wall-E
Mike Senna is some sort of robot building guru. He’s responsible for a life sized, carefully researched and very functional Wall-E robot. Working on his own time, putting in 25 hours a week for two years and spending his own money, he’s been able to craft this incredible homage to Pixar’s empathic bot.
The full length Doctor Who trailer for the new 2012 series
It’s well worth a watch. There’s always the fine line between spoilers and teasers and I think they have it right in this one. We know people get beat up – but that happens often. We know which baddies the Doctor and companions will be up against – but there are a lot of familiar faces.
Wooden robot plays spot the ball
You know the game – three cups on the table, one ball under the cup and you have to keep your eye on the ball as the cups are whooshed around. It’s game that people lose their money to by playing sharks on street corners. These guys move the cups so quickly it enables them […]
Monstrous Zoid larva
Do you remember Zoids? They were robotic creatures that you had to build yourself by attaching plastic to plastic, screwing in caps and making sure all the hinges and joins worked well. Later on there was a computer game and even an anime series.
Turn your phone into a robot – meet Romo
I think this is a good idea – but let me know if you disagree. Romo was a Kickstarter project that funded last year and raised just just of $115,000. It lets you turn your smartphone into a robot. Romo is still pretty basic but, we’re told, he’s fast learner. This is him messing around […]
Collider #2 and an interview with Mike Garley
Mike Garley is a writer and editor who lectures, professionally, on writing for comics as well as the use of comics in transmedia campaigns. He runs the comic anthology Dead Roots based on a zombie plague. It is no surprise that Mike is the lead author for the comics in the transmedia franchise Collider. Alongside […]
Could you build a Portal Turret? Yes; here’s one
This is an academic project – the creation of a real life Portal Turret. Watch the video and listen as it even sounds like a Portal Turret. It’s a gun that sweetly asks you to come closer. It’s also a gun that tracks you as you move and shoots you. The good news is that […]
Robopocalypse: How to survive the robot uprising
This video makes some important points. Sure, yes, we worry about a zombie apocalypse – and that might happen thanks to chemical warfare, mucking around with genes or too much exposure to reality TV. But is it likely? What seems far more likely is a robot uprising. Today, Google’s robot car got its own license. […]
Festo’s flying and morphing shape – new robots ahoy
I was impressed by the Festo team at The Gadget Show Live this year. I even managed to capture (some) video footage of their robot bird as it flew gracefully around the stage. A new video from the company shows off their “SmartInversion”. This is a flying geometrical band, filled with hellium, that moves through […]
