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While in Vienna, I met up with geeks every Sunday morning at and while there I met Manfred, who explained his pay-what-you-want DIY Brunch experiment and a little bit of the philosophy and technology behind his restaurant space.

Create your own sympathy doll! It's a great project to create a gift for the holidays!

Zoetropes are magic. They take the effect of strobing that you get on the subway and put that in a little turning cylinder. It's a special form of animation that generally focuses on movements that repeat themselves like walking or a bird flying. I found ...

Here's a harpsichord at the Technisches Museum in Vienna. In Seattle, I knew a guy who would make harpsichords from scratch and I am very fond of their sound. Do you have a favorite musical instrument that you can share and show how it works?

Here are my robots that I presented at Roboexotica! Competitions are fun!

A few years ago, I ran into CTP at Robogames and made this video about his wonderful Arca Musarithmica, which gets it's name from an autonomous musical instrument invented by Athanasius Kircher, a Jesuit priest, in the 16th century. Kircher was a ...

The Rim Shot Bot that Christopher Palmer, aka CTP, made does a rim shot. It can be remotely activated with a button or it can be automated to say punchlines or Bushisms and then give itself a rim shot. Budumpadumptcha!

This lego shotbot uses pneumatics to pump air into a bottle of juice or vodka which then pushes the liquid out a tube and into a cup. Mmmmm, lego induced drunkenness!

Anthony Fudd is a lego obsessive. He came to Roboexotica and rocked it with his awesome drunk-inducing lego robots!

Mike Gee designed and prototyped an awesome lock that you can see right into because it's made out of clear acrylic.

learn how to draw on buildings. Laser Tagging is a non-destructive way of using a laser, video camera, computer and projector to apply graffiti to buildings! It’s a lot of fun! You’ll see the GRL Vienna guys Michael Zeltner and Florian ...

I went to FM4 to be interviewed about Roboexotica and DIY culture. Afterwards, I had a chance to interview Gerald about the setup he uses in the studio.

The shot glass printing robot is complete! Marius and Philipp rebuilt it!

Last year I went to Vienna and made a Reprap with my friends at Metalab. This is part 2!

Last year I went to Vienna and made a Reprap with my friends at Metalab.

Zach Smith of the RepRap Research Foundation wanted to make something cool, so he schemed up a peristaltic pump that can pump liquids without having any parts except the tube touch the liquid. It's made with acrylic, skate bearings, and a few bolts!

Adam Mayer has designed paper gear business cards including a special planetary gear configurations!

Jeff Rutzky likes to explore materials and he has been recently obsessed with Tyvek. Tyvek is thin material that is used to wrap buildings up while they are building them and it's also used in lots of postal envelopes because it's very strong and near ...

Lux Alptraum saw a circular scarf and wanted one without spending a lot of cash so she went and bought some fabric and sewed one up! This circular scarf would make a great inexpensive holiday present!