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Wow I just got back from a fantastic weekend in Tahoe with the West Oakland Rocketry Club (WORC)
here’s a little video tease shot with a Casio EX-FS10 at 400 frames per second of my X-Patriot missile:
4 “D” motors. cardboard tube, foam-core fins, whiffle-ball nosecone, perfect paint job. no recovery method. Tahoe WORC trip 2010. Shot [...]

The winter storms. Warehouses open their doors and close them again. The treehouse must move. Out of Treasure Island and into the badlands of East Oakland… NIMBY takes us in for a while as we make a list of that which needs fixing; Wiring, windows, holes in walls, a new roof.
In June the Treehouse moves [...]

Yes! The Steampunk Treehouse, a large interactive sculpture I helped to build, has finally found a home!

We’re going to be installing the Tree House permanently at Dogfish Head Brewery in Milton, Delaware.

The Steampunk Tree House was first conceived in 2006 as a collaborative project with Kinetic Steam Works. This 25,000 pound interactive and immersive sculptural [...]

Last week I helped Michael Christian pick up the “Egg” from the Reliance powder coating in San Leandro:
Unfortunately they couldn’t fit the sculpture into the powder coating oven and had to paint it by hand. This was less than ideal for a number of reasons – mostly, Michael said, because he could have bondo-ed the [...]

I was interviewed this week for the local NBC News station! Here’s the link to the video segment:

I brought out a few of my friends to the secret warehouse that stores the Steampunk Treehouse -  Sean Orlando was there to talk about the Treehouse, along with Alan Rorie, Oliver W. Lowe and Emily Beighley.
Oliver is [...]