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  • CyBorg Ginger Bread Man with an attitude.

  • My attempt to copy Mark Tilden's walking Solarbotic robot. I could not find any Sony Walkman motors so I substituted them with floppy eject motors from Macintosh computers hence the name WalkMac.

  • I built this Crank Ghost for Halloween 2005 and it was a great hit with the neighbors. I've built it with parts purchased from the local hardware store and hair salon. I have included two pictures and a video of the ghost in action.

  • This is a Rolling Ball Sculpture Trophy (RBS) that I built for an unnamed company and it was based on the Robots movie with an Olympics theme.

  • This is my MAME Table which cost me about $490 to build and it has over 4000 arcade games from the 1970's to early 1990's. This became so popular with my family and friends I ended up building 12 of these units. Contact me by email if your interested in obtaining the plans.

  • This is a magnetic levitator using an electro magnet and it is control via a Hall Effect Transistor. I decided to make it out of wood which hides all of the circuits and magnets


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    I decided to try my own version with Funkytown by Lipps Inc. by only using computers from the early 1980's that were destined for the Junk Yard and this is how I got the idea for JunkyTown. I also used a modem but DTMF tones are lousy for musical notes (no harmonics) but I was very lucky to find two notes that did sound good. On your phone punch in 3 3 2 3 and you got the beginning part of the solo and the rest is history. Please note no synthesizer or audio effects were used and all the audio was recorded from a microphone or direct line. Some of the audio was amplified when it was mixed down because the levels were too low ie. the printer and modem. The Commodore 64 was used for the main Bass and Guitar. The Ti-99/4A was used for the second part of the solo because of the limitation of DTMF tones. It was tempting to just sample the modem but I did not in order to keep it 100% original. It was difficult to video tape the printer because it kept shaking the table so I looped the printer video in the begining of the video. The printer sometimes caused the harddrive head to shake out of sync so I inserted a screw into the mechinism and this some what helped.

  • More Coming Soon.