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Building Stompy the Giant Robot Inside the World's Biggest Hackerspace

Makers often seem like mad scientists, so what better moniker for a place where hundreds of them congregate than the Asylum? Artisan's Asylum is a Somerville, Massachusetts-based hackerspace that gives Boston-area makers a place to cut loose and cut steel. Its founder, Gui Cavalcanti, may be the most insane among them. After spending the last four months teaching a class on how to design giant robots, Cavalcanti and team turned to Kickstarter to fund an open-source, 18-foot-wide, 4,000 pound, six-legged hydraulic robot that you can ride. ...

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Published By: Wired - Thursday, 9 August, 2012

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