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and now we’re filling them with talkies, thanks to our new Media Maker, Bre Pettis. Formerly a puppet maker and schoolteacher, Bre is filming all things MAKE and serving up video on the MAKE: Blog
( makezine.com/blog). Here’s a tour:
Every week, we’re featuring a project that you can make over the weekend. For the first video podcast, you can learn how to make a workbench for your garage, studio, or get your priorities straight and put it in your living room! We also posted the Sketchup files; Sketchup is a free 3D design tool for creating ideas ( sketchup.google.com). Download Sketchup and go look at the workbench in the Google Sketchup warehouse, or just download the Sketchup file on makezine.com.
I-Wei Huang creates amazing robots that run on steam. An animator by day and steam-roboteer at night, I-Wei’s inspiration for his robots includes animators such as Miyazaki (see page 18 for an article on his work).
David Schilling and Gus Jansson started up
SMART, which stands for Seattle Mindstorms and Robotic Techies, and they’ve got a great community of Lego robotic enthusiasts. They work with other Lego robot makers in the Seattle area to create collaborative robotics.
Go where no maker has gone before and lived to tell of ... a walkthrough of the Survival Research Labs. SRL has been making industrial-sized remote control machines and performing with them around the world since 1978 (see page 28 for a profile of SRL founder Mark Pauline).
Then take a visit to iRobot and look at the evolution of their bots, from the Roomba robot vacuum (with its open interface) to the PackBot.
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