Steam Walker, explained

Here is a video showing how my Steam Walker work:

Motorla Steampunk

This is a spot that I did for Motorola a few years ago, but was never used. I found a version of it and thought that I'd share :)

Wired Garage Interview

Wired visited my garage!

Check out the article here: http://www.wired.com/design/2013/02/steampunk-hamster-wheel-robots/

Since they focused quite a bit on the Hamster Walker, I made this little template and parts list, for anyone looking to reproduce it:

And now something that I found funny. This type of hamster is ironically named "Robo" Dwarf Hamster. Quite suitable for a hamster mech-suit pilot.... named Princess.

Polygon video and interview

With the launch of Skylanders Giants, I've been busy with lots of interviews. Polygon decided that they want a story about me, and came to film me at work, as well as at home. I don't think I've ever been so flattered.... Ever. The video is beautifully shot and edited, and the article is full of my work and play.

http://www.polygon.com/2012/11/7/3593084/inside-the-skylanders-toy-workshop

Q&A with NBC News

Sometimes I get Skylanders interviewers asking a little about my Steam/Robot hobby, but this one got into the details, of the connection between the two for me! Interview with NBC News

Exploratorium Webcast: Toys

Thanks to everyone who came out to the Open Make show this weekend at the Exploratorium! And if you missed it, here is the webcast, where I talked about my steam and electric robots hobby, and Skylanders toys for work. My son wanted to be up there with me. Somebody needed a nap! So instead of being a distraction, I just brought him to the stage. He was totally happy just being up there with me, I guess he didn't get my stage fright genes! Anyway, enjoy the webcast, I was the second speaker, about 16 minutes in, but I strongly recommend watching the whole thing from start to end. Update, the Exploratorium had just uploaded video of my section only, shown below. However, I'd still recommend to check out the entire webcast!

Not only was it an honor to be part of Open Make and the Exploratorium, but it was great to meet the amazing toy makers.

Also, some of my steam powered and electric robots, are on display in the tinkering studio for the next couple of weeks: Steam powered R2, Steam Walker, Steam Centipede, Steam Turtle, couple of the Swashbots, and the Putterbot:

Exploratorium & One of Swords

Sorry for the late post.... first, I was interviewed by One of Swords (about 24 mins in). And I'll be at the Exploratorium this Saturday: http://tinkering.exploratorium.edu/open-make-toys/

The Exploratorium will be displaying many of my steam creations, as well as the electric critters. I will also be bringing some prototype skylander toys, and some really early hand sculpts, molds, casts etc. I will try to bring all of the Skylanders, including yet to be released if people wanted to see what they will look like :) I'll probably be there most of the day, the interview is between 1pm-2pm.