Popular Mechanics was at Steam Powered, the California Steampunk Convention, and has a piece on their site of favorite gadgets from the con. Seen here, from top to bottom: The Stroh violin, Holly Conrad's mechanical wings, and Kevin O'Hare's box camera digital casemod.
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Weekend Project: Beetlebot
Simple robot from your parts bin that avoids obstacles. Thanks go to Jerome Demers for the original article in MAKE, Volume 12. To download the Beetlebot video, click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the complete Beetlebot article...
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I spotted a predecessor to that Zohl violin at the Deutsches Museum in Munich a couple of years back: http://flickr.com/photos/aplumb/121281640/in/set-72057594092419973/
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