Robomobile
Maker Faire Bay Area 2019
May 17th-19th
Exhibit
Art & Design
Robomobile is a human-powered robot costume made of metal, plastic, wood, and a tricycle. The style is from 1960s tin toys, and the mechanism is equally low-tech. Dr Who Daleks used to be powered this way. Is it not a real robot?
Russell Wilcox
Russell Wilcox is an engineer who invents exotic lasers for big science. He also builds science education exhibits and draws comics. He believes that inventing high technology is basically play you get paid for. He still has his old tin toy robots.
