Nowhere Fast
This could be Carter’s head. This is machined metal, not to be confused with Metal Machine Music. It’s going to be too heavy for his tiny little plastic+bamboo body, but damn does it look amazing. I even like the striped traces of the tool on its face.
Picked this up on one of seemingly many rainy rainy soggy-as-shite nights in the ghetto. Dude that did this for me put down the bong in time for me to pick it up. Are all craftsmen/artists required to wake and bake? It seems so. Just as in all designers must be flakes. Ah but I digress.
Unfortunately (or fortunately, really) I will be spending November in Buenos Aires and so won’t be able to get the booth at Designer Con this year. Alas, I have still given myself the deadline of Halloween 2011 to get this prototype done. It is so close I can taste it.
To help matters I have hired my new right hand gal, the intrepid Katie Broughton of Wild Planet, to help with the final engineering. I like how this has come full circle. Katie was my first contact at WP oh so many years ago (a lifetime really) when I was still in school and taking a business class from her husband at Haas in Berkeley. I trust her engineering acumen (the MIT and Stanford degrees don’t hurt) and she is REALLY into robots.
I will make all attempts at updating this thing over the next four months as I head down the final stretch.
