Giant Atari 2600 Joystick Commissioned by Jon Gibson for the i am 8 bit art show in LA, this is exactly what you think it is: a big, 15x scale, working Atari joystick! I had cabinetmaker Dan Fill help me with the cutting of the big pieces and some of the assembly, and the electronics are really embarassingly crude. But, then again, so is the real one. It's pretty much five switches made from screws and aluminum flashing, bungie cord springing, and a golf ball as a pivot. But it's fun! And very, very ungainly. And people tend to climb all over it and beat the crap out of it. If, for some reason, you'd like to a copy of the plans I used to make the stick, enjoy. Also, here's a link to the Make: magazine article about the joystick, and there's other articles about it out there, too. And, even more exciting, I got interviewed about it by the great Mark Frauenfelder over at BoingBoingTV: Make:Way Race Team, 24 Hours of Lemons 2008 Incredibly, the nice folks over at Make: magazine sponsored me and a crack team in fielding a sub $500 racecar in the great 24 Hours of Lemons, the world's finest motorsport for crapboxes costing under $500. We did far better than anyone thought we had any right to. It was a blast. A Machine Project Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art I was lucky enough to participate in Machine Project's takeover of LACMA. I had two pieces the Hydropticonium (pictured above, click the image for an iffy papercraft version you can make), a zoetrope powered by the LACMA's fountains, and the Peeping Netsuke (pictured below) which was an apparatus that made a giant netsuke peep in a window. Just like you'd think. Click the image for a video. Robots I've been building a bunch of robots lately, too. They light up, move, or worry. Some even loiter, wait, or consider things. One can see into the future, but I wasn't able to make any way of usable output. Nerdcore Calendar Robot Gun-Arm Another Jon Gibson commission, I made the cybernetic dyna-invigorator imparalator arm prosthetic worn by the lovely model here. This was for the 2008 Nerdcore calendar. More stuff I'll eventually try to put up here, in a list more as a reminder for me, really: Soda bottle lamps, the crapophone, paintings, the big berzerk robot, and more. I'm also a founder of Avacast, the best webcasting/webconferencing system known to humankind. If you ever need to meet people who aren't anywhere near you, it's great.