Maker Faire Bay Area 2008

The Skull: Ongoing Re-use and Movies

Topic(s): Arts | Crafts | Engineering | Science

Tags: "skull" "wireless"

A big damn 9 ft tall skull—made of toxic waste. Rolls around with eyes and teeth made out of flat panels. Has a projector mounted and at night will be showing classic movies on old tech: Plan9, Night of the Living Dead, The Last Man on Earth, and a bunch of old Flash Gordon serials, etc. In addition, the skull makes a dandy PA system and can be used remotely over the network (you can send txt to the skull and it will read it out in one of hundreds of artificial voices, or we can use a streaming audio system to emit mere human voices). The skull also has cameras so you can see the reactions of the passerby. It moves under its own power (not very well yet), playing the theme from Jaws.

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About the Maker(s)

James Burgett

James Burgett

- ACCRC

Award winning, deranged, re-use geek with a rather subversive view of technology (technology doesn't poison the planet; people do). In my secret identity, I run the Alameda Computer Resource Center, refurb and give away over 1,000 computers a year, and divert approx 300,000 pounds of electronic waste to recyclers per month.

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