SRL Best of the Yard

[Robodock] SRL featured in Amsterdam Weekly

2007-09-20T23:21:00.000-07:00

Interview of Mark Pauline by Mark Wedin.

Click on the image to see the article in this week's Amsterdam Weekly. PDF version forthcoming

Things are going well according to crew including the usual trouble Mark got into from V1 testing yesterday. "the V1 is running like never before...it's finally back to running like it did at the doom show (and before)...it's backfiring and really humming with some great amplitude and low frequencies....very nice....mark is really
happy...just testing it yesterday brought much of robodock to a standstill as crowds gather from all directions...even a helicopter overhead...oh and of course mark got in trouble for running it...but that's par for the course as you know..."

And another crew member says, "I got a report that it was making the rainwater on the ground in the campground vibrate, with everyone running out of their trailers when it begins. The buildings on the pier are resonating very sympathetically!"

Here's a previous test run video clip of the V1 to whet Robodockers' appetites. The low frequencies are great and perfect for an internal organ/eyeball massage!

Video taken by Karen Marcelo July 2006

[Robodock] Assembling Machines and Prop Building

2007-09-16T08:43:00.000-07:00

So ends the 2nd week for the crew out in Amsterdam. It was spent mostly unloading the container which arrived late, re-assembling the machines that were packed in pieces and building new props for the show. The 3rd week starts with the arrival of the last batch of crew and machine testing and tweaking before the big show on Saturday!

Joanne, Kent, and Greg put the Inchworm together:

Images from Nina Alter

Kent, Mike, and Ulrika re-attach the Satan head to the Bombloader while Liisa forklifts it in. The face portion alone is a 300lb block of solid steel and the furnace and casing around it make it considerably more:

Images from Nina Alter

SRL @ Robodock

[Robodock] Kevin Mathieu's Field Notes

2007-09-15T11:26:00.001-07:00

Heavy weather lies ahead for the crew and RoboDock for Monday to Wednesday. Despite the expected storm ahead crew has had clear sailing so far with machines re-assembly and prop creation. The 5 days delay allowed us to wash down and vacuum the entire shop floor area ( which is really nice considering its previous condition of piles of dust and droppings). As well as get four large new props created from scratch.

Image from Kevin Mathieu

Time is not wasted here; it is pinned down and wrestled to the ground, so every moment can be held accountable for its output.

SRL is ensconced in its lock down fenced compound inside the NDSM ship building in Northern Amsterdam, a free ferry ride from Central Train Station. Our fencing and attitude amuses the events organizers, other artists, and instills a sense of defined space in comparison to the other groups. Plus discourages distracting lookee loos.

With several of us sleeping with the machines every night, we have control of our environment from those tempted with thoughts of pilfering or sabotage. Elsewhere at RoboDock a German crew lost a brand new welder, so we know we are not being paranoid, simply sensible in a foreign clime.

The night guards know us live in watchers, and cautiously approach due to rumors of the mad Americans being armed with home made projectile devices. I can not confirm or deny.

Todays (Sat Sept 15th) arrivals include David Gessel and Carolyn Anhalt, plus Kent Cates's partner Rebecca. Rebecca brought Peets coffee to fuel the crew. As a backup David and Carolyn have brought some beans as well, plus a nice little ethernet switch to sort out an irritating internet connectivity issue. Really long ethernet runs in this huge building do not make happy packets.

Currently the V-1 is fueled and nearly ready to go. Nina and Liam have been the core team forking in every little and large V-1 segment, assembling up all of the dozens of bolts, wires and connectors.

The Running Machine and Inchworm are almost done.

Mark Pauline has kept the big picture open and clarified the details on every bit of minutiae on machine assembly, operation, manufacturing, and of course concept for many of the new big props. You can see Mark everywhere from vacuuming up the floor with other crew members, to teaching new tool tricks to old and new dogs on the crew. It is a real privilege and pleasure for all to work with a pro like what we joke as Grandpa Mark. He is why we all work so many hours and put our utter best into all we do. Mark has done that and seen that, is cool and mellow about his experience, then makes and teaches something new to all of us everyday by example and interaction so that we all gain and become better in art, direct experience, or spirit.

Image from Nina Alter

David Gessel with an hour of arrival stared sorting out the Shock Wave cannon. Already assembled 90%, its the last 10 percent requiring his MIT fine tuning for the controller. Within 3 hours it had its' first test. Many of the crew stood less then 10 meters away to enjoy its sound wave impact for the 5 or so test ( which we were
kinda not suppose to do due to the glass skylights). The reverberations echoed off the building for minutes. This is the sort of stuff we live for.

The Screw Machine's electronics are being a tad wonky but Michael Shiloh, just one of our master circuit board wiz's should be sorting it out soon. He also sorted out the potentiometer for the Hovercraft. Now the new ones are in their happy place, ready to rotate the pulse jets to Marks delight.

Image from Ulrika Andersson

Kent Cates and Joanne Bloomfield assembled the Inchworm with all its very heavy bones and tight pin connectors. It is tricky and tight tolerance rigging to get the heavy bones into place just right. Joanne has also been busy with a very cool, super secret prop surprise for the show. No pics so come to the show for the birth of this one time work of art.

Kent, as house electrician, has setup the power grid and transformers that juices this crew. We suck the electrons down. From drying our clothes with an 30K BTU theater in the container, to the grinders and welders, prop motors, work lights, the Chinese Mill, laptops and much more.

Greg Jones, the designated SRL VIP tour guide, last night discovered that the local massive shipbuilding crane out front ( the last of 4, three have blown down) is being held up by just four thick roller bolts. A kinda sketchy weak point for all that weight. No one wonders why this crane is scheduled to come down in three years. Which will be sadly missed as it looms, beckons, and teases us all to be scaled.

Other then investigating the local machinery Greg Jones created 2 new props. Both are heavy duty loud. If the 6 jet engines weren't reason enough to have ear plugs and ear muffs for the show, these two props will justify your preshow purchase of industrial-strength hearing protection. Locally, ear muffs are 10 euros ( get the 30 db or highest rated, if possible).

Image from Kevin Mathieu

Babalou has been doing what she does best, producing the show, running interference and translation between crew and show organizers needs. The crew may be the fluid of the SRL body, but she is the nervous system that keeps the body out of danger from odd impulses and filters out extraneous inputs.

Image from Nina Alter

Ulrika Andersson, despite a broken rib ( she blames Jack Daniels for the injury tho some suspect a Base Jump gone awry), is the stellar everywhere wrencher and electrician. Easily spotted in industrial yellow ear muffs, has been getting old school with installing servomotors instead of basic stamp boards for controlling the Screw Machine. Beyond this project, she has a 4 column hand drawn spreadsheet to track the power needs ( electrical and fuel) plus current status for the various machines. A truly mission critical, but somewhat tedious task.

Liisa Pine has been finishing touches and upgrades for Mr. Satan, improving the little arm hydraulic manifold, welding up numerous props, and much more. It is rumored that she will be getting the prestigious Worker of the Day award from the RoboDock organizers.

The highly sought prize, may mean she gets to jump to the head of the line for chow at the mess hall. It is either that, or a gift certificate for a local Amsterdam "coffehouse". SRL workers only want to work, so we know which she would pick if granted the award. Going offsite for anything but sleep and parts is rarely sanctioned. This is not a tourism trip to see the sights and irritate the locals, it is much better, they come to us and we amuse and irritate them from our side of the fence compound. Then the show happens and we become the tourist trap.

Liam has been up to trouble in the neighborhood of the V-1, the Dual Mule, props development (which all give him props for), a crafty little tool caddy (out of desk drawer) , and much more.

The V-1, Pulse Jets, and Screw Machine won't be tested indoors, due to concerns of the glass skylights. It is believed that large glass shards falling from 80 feet above on to the compound might slow down work. Work slow down is not allowed at what Babalou and a few old timers jokingly call "Slave Research Laboratories". So those machines head outdoors Monday for a test.

Image from Nina Alter

Mark Pauline is on site every day at 8 am and here til 1:30 or 2 AM every day. His early arrival was a bit of an issue for the local festival management last week since they didn't unlock the building until 9 am.

The solution? His camper was moved indoors to the compound. The disadvantage was that he was locked in at night with the machines, food, bathrooms, and a net connection. What more could one ask for? Wart, our local official liaison between us and RoboDoc keeps us in touch with the stuff we need in materials or equipment. His Dutch rockabilly style and deep manufacturing knowledge keeps us feeling good that we got the right person to connect us to the System. Many of us are rather attached to his British offroad forklift. Some of the crew might be scheming to borrow it somehow ( can we expand the container?) to bring it back to the US to play. Doubtful, but you gotta have a dream.

Image from Kevin Mathieu

Shannon O'Hare has built a fantastic little casa to watch over the site at night. Soon to be fork lifted onto our container as a nightwatch tower. It is hoped he will have better luck avoiding the mosquitos then I did the other night.

The Wedge, half machine / half prop by Shannon and Kimric Smythe is a wonder to behold. The Wedge, is, as Michael S says " Fucking Amazing".

Michael Wehner self proclaimed shit stirrer just describes his current focus as Spool Launcher and handyman to many projects including but not limited to the Running Machine and the Hovercraft.

Kevin Mathieu has been seen in the vicinity of many forklift moves of materials, Dual Mule Assembly, container offload, writing and documenting via words and camera ( still and moving), sleeping with the machines, helping out Babalou from losing it, and taking it out on a unlucky native that nearly ran him down. The bastard deserved
getting his hood pounded for being such a dangerous idiot.

Image from Kevin Mathieu

Our hangout has become the Garage bar, an on-site speakeasy with 1 Euro beers that all the artists have been congregating at post work. You gotta love the Dutch for this, if nothing else. And there is much we love about this place, especially the meals. Course the other artists knock off work by an easy 10 pm or right after dinner, we don't roll into the bar til midnight or more likely 2 am for our one
beer and grog a day ration. Or something like that.

Image from Kevin Mathieu

As one Dutch RoboDock artist at the bar said: "Are all you Americans so crazy? ". All at the table simply laughed. Marnix, a Dutch local addition to the crew has demoed his welding and industrial arts skill on the ladder prop as well as elsewhere. An excellent addition to any SRL show. Marnix was brought in by a previous Amsterdam SRL hand (from the 1989 Amsterdam show). Bram and his partner Michelle. Both have been a invaluable resource from generously loaning spare bikes before our container arrived, plus a priceless and essential coffee kettle, to being the runners for the assorted eccentric needs of the crew and machines. Michelle as been Babalou's Dutch right hand man for on site coordination and much more.

[Robodock] Container Unloading and Pre-Show Prep for Next Weekend!

2007-09-15T08:57:00.001-07:00

This will be the show site on the 22nd Sept 2007.

Image from Kevin Mathieu

Click on the images to see the higher rez version:

Container unloading:

First container image from Ulrika Andersson and image of Greg, Kevin, and Mark with empty container from Kevin Mathieu

Liam and Kimric work on the spinning prop

Images from Kevin Mathieu

Initial crew meetings

Images from Kevin Mathieu

Aside from the houseboat, some of the crew are also in caravans:

Images from Kevin Mathieu

Another new prop being built is a spool launcher:

Image from Kevin Mathieu

[Robodock] Crew at Work (Week 2)

2007-09-12T23:39:00.000-07:00

The container arrived 5 days late due to a hurricane but was finally unloaded yesterday. The crew are now at work re-assembling machines and building props.

Images from Nina Alter:

Not quite OSHA compliant but this is Amsterdam!

Liisa preparing to weld

Michael, Greg, and Ulrika in the electronics zone

Some DIY makeshift tech at the SRL area:

Ye Olde Style Wiki

DIY crew punch in/out board:

Mark made a makeshift coffee maker out of welded together metal and an upwards propane torch to heat up not so good coffee: (to crew yet to come: bring some Peets!)

The crew residence - a 100 year old boat that sleeps about 16:

Image from Ulrika Andersson

The ship is near an old Russian sub:

Image from Kevin Mathieu

[Robodock] 1st Batch of Crew Has Arrived

2007-09-09T00:55:00.000-07:00

Mark Pauline and the first batch of crew arrived in Amsterdam Sept 4th and into a temporary work area. A huge warehouse to protect the crew, props, and machines from rain!

Image from Ami Sun

It has a crane that we can't use since 3 out of the 4 there have already fallen off.

Image from Nina Alter

There also is an old East German Propaganda mobile that serves as the crew lounge:

Image from Nina Alter

Kevin Mathieu recorded Liam McNamara "walking" a giant spool to be used as a prop:

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2nd wave of crew is arriving on site this weekend and a 3rd batch next weekend!

[Robodock] Show Title

2007-08-27T15:01:00.000-07:00

A Complete Mastery of Sinister Forces

Employed With Callous Disregard To Produce Catastrophic Changes In The Natural Order of Events

Old school long show title! Mark is also coming up with a poster soon. Stay on top of what the crew is up to on the Official SRL Robodock page

[Robodock] Last Crew Meeting at the SRL Shop in SF!

2007-08-25T09:25:00.000-07:00

The crew gathered one last time at the SRL Shop in San Francisco to go over details for the trip to Amsterdam. Mark also showed us pictures of the new shop up north! Lots of space for all the machines! No more moving of 3 machines to get to the one you want to work on. Each machine will have it's own 'stall'!

This familiar sight will be missed!

Crew meeting:

[Robodock] Machines that are en route to Robodock!

2007-08-11T08:21:00.000-07:00

Stationary Machines

Little Arm

The small arm (12 ft. long) *usually* on the Screw Machine. It can be controlled remotely by a human via the arm controller (gesture based interface).

Shockwave Cannon

This giant stationary device forms vortex rings of air and projects the rings at high speeds. It's barrel is approximately 20 ft.

Original Air Launcher

A high pressure launcher that uses bursts of air to project weighted soda pop cans with a range of 100 meters

New Mr. Satan

Based on the original Mr. Satan robot from the 1980s, the head of the original was 3D-scanned and milled out of a 300 lb
block of solid stainless steel. There is a furnace attached to it from behind where flames can be blown out threw the
heads 'eyes' and 'mouth'. It will be attached to the Bombloader.

Large Pulse Jets

5 150 pound thrust pulse jet engines

Williams Jet

The engine is part of an Auxillary Power Unit (APU) NAVAIR 03-105BD-1, manufactured by Williams Research (now Williams International ) to start aircraft. The starter is hydraulic, and would require a large "mule" (electric motor and hydraulic pump) to start the engine. A Mitsubishi car starter was attached to the engine so the hydraulic starter could be removed. Used at SRL shows for sound and flame effects.

Flame Saucer

This devise disperses fire horizontally in all directions creating a 40'
disk of flame. It utilizes a plenum chamber to store the propane and a large
valve that releases the gas to a shape nozzle that makes the disk shape.

Mobile Machines

V1

A replica of a WWII German-designed buzz bomb jet engine, modified to produce low frequency acoustic output (45 hertz) rather than thrust.

Hovercraft

The loudest robot in the world at 150 decibels. Louder than a cruise missile until it blows up. A 27hp motor provides lift while
2 pulse jets are used for steering.

Running Machine

An elegantly designed six-legged, remote-controlled machine that walks at approx. 5-6 mph with a manipulator arm with various attachments such as claws, stabbing knives, etc.

Inchworm

Large, remote-controlled wheeled machine moves with either a crabbing or inching motion, and has a large vertical jaw mounted on the front that can grab and carry props.

Screw Machine

The Screw Machine is a radio-controlled machine driven via a complex chained gear system. Its wheels are smaller metal wheels threaded around cylinders similar to the threads in a screw, hence the name.

Dual Mules

2 Master Mover tugs normally used for moving industrial materials, connected by a steel beam. It is radio controlled and has an unusual, slow-moving gait where one tug follows the other.

Bombloader

A military bomb loader typically used for loading ammunition onto aircraft, the SRL version is radio-controlled and various attachments are added in place of military weapons or ammunition, such as the Boeing, Hand-O-God, and for this show, Mr. Satan.

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Prop (to be built onsite)

Another in a series of mechanized props. This device consists of two 4ft "wheels" attached to a gear box. it is driven
+by a wheelchair motor, and is "steered" by the objects it runs into.

[Robodock] Bon Voyage SRL Machines!

2007-08-02T22:04:00.000-07:00

That's it! The container left yesterday August 1 to be shipped out of Oakland and around the Cape and on to NDSM Wharf. Many thanks to all the crew's late nights and hard work stuffing it all in.

According to Todd "The sideloader weighed the the container in at a gross weight of
54,300 lbs. give or take 800 lbs. So that means we loaded 45,480 lbs. of stuff"

Photo from Todd Blair

Despite the shop half empty, it's amazing how it's still not what you would call 'bare'.

The container is tightly packed with every square inch filled with something! Here Jon Sarriugarte finds some room for a pulse jet:

Before I left for the night the load crew were still having to cram in the Hovercraft, Screw Machine, Inchworm Head, Air Launcher and various tool boxes, generators, welders, and misc. boxes. Here Brian and Todd get the Hovercraft ready to go in next:

If only Brian had power of levitation!

Joanne gets a forklift lesson

The machines we're taking along are (and for some of them this is not their first trip to Europe!): Running Machine, Inchworm, V1, Shockwave Cannon, Little Arm, Screw Machine, original Air Launcher, Hovercraft, Dual Mules, several large Pulse Jets, Bombloader and Satan furnace. We'll be building the usual elaborate props there and the requisite ammo too.

[Robodock] How to get the Little Arm into a Container

2007-08-01T10:35:00.000-07:00

Step 1 - Position the Little Arm like this (well for this load, that is the position):

Step 2 - DON'T DO THIS!

Step 3 - Support the 'head' with a strap, leading it in like a pony:

Step 4 -

Step 5 - You need a long person like Kent to pull things into place:

Little Arm load - Step 5 from k0re and Vimeo.

Step 6 - Once inside, put a dolly under the front leg to make it easier to push in

You may also have to 'ride' on the back leg so it doesnt pitch too far to one side

Little Arm Container Load - STep 6 from k0re and Vimeo.

Step 7 - Manually re-position the arm/head to make it fit better

Little Arm Container Load - Step 7 from k0re and Vimeo.

The nylon feet make it easy for big crew members to skooch it in even more:

[Robodock] Container Loading continues...

2007-07-31T10:39:00.000-07:00

Pulse jets are staged and ready to go:

The Running Machine is next in line though:

This is the container layout plan. How does one cram 40,000lbs of machines into a teeny 40 ft container?:

Dinner was served in the container last night with the Bombloader used as a table and the Satan Head as a centerpiece:

Then the crew gathered around Mark while he made lattes for everyone from the special SRL coffee machine that only HE is allowed to touch:

Uncovered from amongst the junk is this old Panimal (wall panelling made from dead animals) used for 1988's Bitter Message of Hopeless Grief. Almost 20 years ago, an organization delivered a truckload of euthanized animals for SRL to vacu-form into wall panelling and they took them all back at the end of the day:

This is either a mini-pin or a chihuahua carrying a bunny

[Robodock] Hovercraft, Air Launcher Testing

2007-07-29T23:39:00.002-07:00

The Hovercraft got a new motor for increased lift. Testing took place over the weekend:

Hovercraft testing from k0re

Dave Gessel, Mark Pauline, Greg Jones set the Hovercraft up for testing:

Note recording studio door closing in the background:

Packmaster Michael Shiloh:

New motor for the hovercraft: 27hp from previous 14hp

The Bombloader/Satan Head gets driven into the container. As Brian Normanly said, "I love a machine that drives itself into the container" :

Last two images from Nina Alter

The original air launcher was also pulled out and tested:

[Robodock] Container Loading

2007-07-27T10:32:00.001-07:00

Last night the V1 barrel, Inchworm in pieces, and Shockwave Cannon were being loaded into the 40ft container to Amsterdam - all 40,000lbs of 'obnoxious cargo'!

It's going to be a tight fit and this blog post is for the benefit of the crew so they can reverse the process on the other side!

Container Loading from k0re and Vimeo.

For all images below, click on them to get a higher rez version:

First thing is that the barrel should be at an angle to the forks

Use a clamp and 2 forklifts to secure the barrel to the forks:

Come into the container at an angle so that inside the container, the forklift can sort of turn and position the barrel on the far right and suspend it:

It goes behind the Inchworm t-bone. This is with both parts of the barrel in place:

In order to lift the forks high enough (so our other crap can fit) some front plate part of the forklift had to be removed so it can go higher. It's entirely possible the forklift in Amsterdam will be different so people will most likely
improvise!

And so begins the loading of 40,000lbs of "obnoxious cargo":

[Robodock] Robodock Load-Out Prep

2007-07-21T23:37:00.000-07:00

The container has arrived!	Todd and Liam prep the container:
Mark moves the wheelocopter out of the way:	Stack of Sneaky Soldiers from some LA shows:
Jon and Rich disassemble the Shockwave Cannon:	Packed straps in front of the Screw Machine:

[Robodock] Mr. Satan Gets Hot

2007-07-18T10:45:00.000-07:00

Jon Sarriugarte made some 'improvements' to Mr. Satan. New valves and regulator to make a different effect and padding the insides of the furnace so only the face glows red hot:

Photo from Mark Pauline. Click on the image to get a larger view

Video of Mr. Satan testing from Kevin Mathieu:

Kimric Smythe and Shannon O'Hare are building something out of old bicycle parts. Here they explain the contraption:

The SRL carnet binder with Liisa's creative renditions of Liisa "Super Carnet Asada" Pine and Karen "Junior Carnet Burrito" Marcelo:

[Robodock] Progress and Pranks

2007-07-15T00:27:00.000-07:00

Both are typical activities at the yard:

No more leaving the gate open!

What happened?

Bob does the Chinese caution tape dance commemorating something:

This special shop potion seems ineffective:

[Robodock] Robodock Prep

2007-07-06T15:10:00.000-07:00

SRL crew are going full-bore on preperations for the upcoming Robodock 2007 in Amsterdam Sept 19-22. We will be putting on a show on the last day of the festival.

Fourth of July has always been a major holiday at the shop. This is us taking a break:

A bird swerves to avoid being another 4th of July statistic:

Kyle's slingshot launcher is right on target.

This bagel proved to be indestructible. Perhaps all the poppy seeds held it in place? Bagel - 3 vs Fireworks - 0

We also took some pictures and made a short video clip for SRL crew member Amacker Bullwinkle who is making an amazing recovery from a bad motorcycle accident. SRL wishes Amacker the best and a speedy recuperation!

And of course, the obligatory familiar ending to any SRL activity:

Despite that, much progress has already been made. A renewed sense of productivity, positivity, and fun is prevailing these days... Machines are in pieces having parts replaced, repaired, and prepped for the trip to Europe.

[Maker Faire] Machine Demo

2007-06-04T22:03:00.000-07:00

Timothy Childs shoves the burning ball away from the audience. Photo by Scott Beale

Click to see high rez image. Photo of audience from Mike Estee

[Maker Faire] Machines are coming home!

2007-05-21T15:30:00.000-07:00

The Bombloader/Mr. Satan, Dual Mule, Running Machine and Hovercraft were held by the San Mateo Event Center for some damage done to the parking lot after last Sunday's little machine exhibition.

Ralf and Wendi lift the Bombloader (tipping forward precariously) off Mark's truck

Nina forklifts random crap to the far end of the yard to make room for the Running Machine.

Mark bailed the machines (including the new Mr. Satan) from detention by promptly paying the beastly $6660 parking lot bill. There is a Machine Rescue Fund should anyone care to support SRL in putting on more free shows in the future.

More on SRL @ Maker Faire 2007 here

[Maker Faire] San Mateo + Maker Day

2007-05-18T13:48:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, a small SRL crew loaded some machines up and brought them down to the San Mateo Center. Images from Violet Blue:

Dual Mule and Running Machine

Satan Head, Bombloader, and Hovercraft are next!

Yesterday morning, Maker Day kicked off the Faire with David Pescovitz interviewing Mark Pauline and John Law. Images taken by Karen Marcelo:

Kimric and Douglas Repetto (dorkbot):

The Craulines:

[Maker Faire] Mumbly Peg

2007-05-18T12:10:00.000-07:00

Karen Marcelo spent the night re-coding Robochop to take the new knife component into account. It is pretty precise should anyone want to play Five Finger Fillet with it!

It claimed it's first victim however:

All the sympathetic screaming brought Mark Pauline over who showed a lot of concern:

[Maker Faire] Team Unicorn

2007-05-18T11:49:00.000-07:00

Liisa Pine, Amy Jenkins, and Wendi Flybutter have been chasing down this mythical machine for years. Legend has it that you must be a virgin to catch it. Well, something happened and maybe their sexodometers cycled around to 000000 since they have finally pinned it down! See it in action at the Maker Faire this weekend! More details on Team Unicorn's progress on the Unicorn Machine is being documented by Amy here.

[Maker Faire] Mr. Satan Comes Alive

2007-05-18T01:24:00.000-07:00

After most of us had gone home from a long day, Nina Alter got some nice shots of Mark and Greg Jones getting the NEW and IMPROVED Mr. Satan attached to the furnace and blowing fire out his eyes and mouth finally!

[Maker Faire] Ralf's Jacob's Ladder

2007-05-15T09:55:00.000-07:00

Ralf Burgert in between Make Faire prep made this cool little jacob's ladder using a car battery: