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Sunday, October 11, 2009

Magazine Coverage

Here are the magazine / newspaper coverage of my tinkerings over the past few years. I've been meaning to gather up the printed coverage for a while now, and finally got around to doing so today. I also wanted to wait until all of them were out of print before showing them. It's quite impressive when you put them all in one place, but they happened slowly over time. I'm very honored to have been in some of my personal favorite printed magazines, even ended up on a cover! It's all still very surreal to me.

Click on the picture to see the magazines






Monday, August 10, 2009

MAKE Magazine: Bot State of the Art - Swashbot 3!



So much magazine coverage lately! first Popular Science, then Popular Mechanics, and now the latest & another one of my favorite magazines, MAKE! The current issue is all about robots, and the "Bot State of the Art" article featured Swashbot3 :) You can read the article here. It's an honor to be in MAKE Magazine again, but to be featured along with other really amazing robots and builders that I admire, is quite an honor. Thanks Gareth Branwyn of Street Tech, for including me in this special issue.

After reading the article, I hope that I didn't sound like a arrogant bot builder. I was trying to emphasize the importance of "character" in robotics, and mentioned winning several RoboGames medals, but I think I may have come across being just a tad too braggy and self important lol.

These last batch of magazines are all super high profile, and are magazines that I read and subscribe to, so that's doubly cool! And Best of all, they all cover my electric critters (Crabfu MotionWorks), rather than the usual steam variety (Crabfu SteamWorks). It's nice to see the little guys gets a some attention as well as the elaborate steam brothers.

Saturday, August 8, 2009

Popular Mechanics: Backyard Genius Awards Swashbot!



I just picked up the September 2009 issue of Popular Mechanics Magazine. And guess who's in it? Yeah my heroes, Jamie and Adam of the MythBusters.

And look! my Swashbot!
It's an honor to be in the Popular Mechanics Backyard Genius awards. I'm not sure about the "genius" part in my case, but at least I'm smart enough to not complain about a flattering title lol. Every year 10 folks are choosen, and I slipped in this year! Woohoo!

Also featured in Backyard Genius, are 2 especially cool bot builders that I really admire... Christian Ristow's Car-Crushing Mechanical Claw, which stole the show at the last MAKER Faire, and my friend Matt Denton's Walking Robot Router.

update: You can now see the article online