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When the organizers of
Festival Rümlingen 2005 asked me to bring the
horse table to
Switzerland, I decided instead to build a new version of the table, this time in the form of an
awkward foal. The foal knows even less about the world than its parent, and
spends most of its time blindly moving its legs every which way in a largely futile effort to
explore the world. It's not easy being a walking table, but the little foal is doing its best!
In the spring of 2007 Make Magazine invited me to bring the foal to their
Maker Faire in San Mateo. My friends/wackos from
Machine Project
were there as well, and they were kind enough to share their space with me and
the foal. Since the foal was already built and could happily wander around the expo hall on
its own (sort of), I thought it'd be fun to spend some time building a little friend for the foal with help from
Maker Faire attendees. So I spent most of my time at the faire sitting at a table building
a flying birdhouse with parts that people brought to me. I had a piece of paper on the table
with a list of materials that I was hoping to use. People brought me those and other neat things
as well, and by the end of the faire we had a nice friend for the foal! Pics & video of the foal
and little bird friend at the Maker Faire over there -->
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Festival Rümlingen 2005
walking tests
(4MB movie)
Maker Faire 2007
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douglas irving repetto
