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TED: Woody Norris: Inventing the next amazing thing

Mayor Awesome — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:00:49 +0000

Guy Building Giant SpiderBot In Vermont Wilderness

Mayor Awesome — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 20:30:01 +0000

From Bot Junkie comes a (long) series of videos of a REAL man. If the zombie apocolaypse happens (oh, and it will happen), I’m going to this guy’s house. He’s basicly building a giant hexapod robot that he can drive around in. Here’s a picture of his plans:
Check out his website. I havent’ gotten through all of the videos, but in order to build his robot, he first has to build a workshop. So he starts there. Did I mention that’s he’s completely off the grid? Yeah. Dude is making this robot from scratch, with very little resources.

[via BotJunkie]

MAKE: Television, Episode 2

Mayor Awesome — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:05:40 +0000

MAKE Magazine, just started a TV series and the first two episodes are already out. This episode covers aerial photography and a so-called “Burrito Blaster,” although in awesome town we call that a potato gun. You can check out a bunch more make videos at their Vimeo page.

Aquaria Design Tour

Mayor Awesome — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:46:31 +0000

Design Tour – Aquaria from David Rosen on Vimeo.

From the Wolfire design blog comes this latest installment of a design tour of the game Aquaria. It’s pretty interesting to watch and give some insight on some of the issues with the game. You can see some other videos by the author, David Rosen on his Vimeo page.