A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
A two-day, family-friendly festival of invention, creativity and resourcefulness, and a celebration of the Maker movement.
Topic(s): Arts
Tags: "robots" gadgets "art" The+Robot+Group
A tableful of gizmos and projects ranging from some classic, favorite Robot Group blimps, fashion arts, robots, and musical devices, to several new works-in-progress like the "machine shop in an Altoids can" and the "seat crawler."
First off, I'm this artist kind of guy that wishes he was a scientist or a shuttle pilot. My "too many projects at once" life style side tracked any possible formal education after high school, so I get by with my subscription to Scientific American and have the coolest physics teacher/shuttle engineer dad a guy could ask for. Although I doubt I'll ever get to fly the shuttle, I did survive 10 years of hang gliding, from the over-passes of I-45 south of Houston to the 10,000 foot Sandia mountains in New Mexico. Moving to Austin in the late 70's I started out living on freelance work in Photography, hang gliding lessons, wood carving, and general construction but eventually did a couple of years at my only two real straight jobs, the first was building electric cars at Jet Industries, where we pulled gas engines out of dodge omni s, and Fuji mini vans and replaced them with electric motors and huge battery packs. The second day job was making solar panels for Cole solar systems. It was fun and a good learning experience but my creative spirit will not be chained down, that and the first couple of weeks of allergy season gets me fired for missing too much work. Oh well, I don't like alarm clocks anyway. Over the last 25 years I have been doing what I do with hopes of some day hitting big with one hair brain scheme or another, with some variety of success. Mostly, just really good press like the 2 page spread in Newsweek and several segments on the Discover Channel about my involvement with the robot group, and fifteen years with the psycho-avaunt-jazz-industrial-punk-classical-garage .....band. LiQuidMicE . After a long hard transition I am finaly moved into my new place way out in west Texas where I plan to continue with my experiments and artistic...Makings .
