jon's extracurricular activities

		jonathan foote
	follies & delusions

I fancy myself an inventor. My first patent. More patents.

I also make things, like the color wand, the laser fountain, and the Micro Rhythm Orchestra...

...not to mention other artifacts.

Some interactive things to play with.

Now and then I make music... like this... or this.

I helped weld the armature and branches for the Bone Tree.

With assistance from Cyclopath, I did the low-voltage lighting for the truly awesome Carthedral (artist: Rebecca Caldwell).

I carried a spear (and a lot of other junk, too) for the Ship-to-Ship project. Here are some STS pictures (photo courtesy John Wendt).

I helped Kal with electronics for his indescribable cool wearable robot thing: Monkey On Your Back, as well as some other stuff.

Thanks to Karen, I spoke at a dorkbot. Here's some supplementary information from my talk.

I showed some art at RoboDock in Amsterdam, and took some pictures.

In 2005 I built some electronic "color goggles." They seem pretty popular when I bust them out:

I've been managing to get out of my cave a little, judging by recent photographic evidence:

Here's me, "open dorking" at the Maker Faire:

(where I also showed some stuff, like lamps

and the Laser Projection Oscilloscope:

)

Me and some other goofs ran the wrong way at bay to breakers, wearing fish costumes.

(Geddit?)

That's me in the Lab Coat of Authority running the sumo competition at Robogames 2006:

photo credit: Scott Beale (Laughing Squid)

Here's one of my new boxes at the July 2006 Dorkbot:

In 2006, I participated in considerable foolishness out there in the desert.

I built the electronics and mechanism for the Hope/Fear Gauge for my friend Al. (I had no idea how high-profile this would be: Larry Harvey himself used the remote control I made to move the pointer. I feared it would stop working halfway through the event given the dust and harsh conditions; fortunately it worked flawlessly.)

I helped with some other things, like L3K, the Serpent Mother (by those rockstars the Flaming Lotus Girls), and the Neverwas Haul

Recently, I've been guest-blogging at suicidebots.com. Some of my more amusing posts concern surplus, Maywa Denki, and gratuitous Muppet whoopee. (Plus, in the self-promotion department, a little gadget I built for dorkbot.)

I went on a little trip to the opera. In Death Valley. Amargosa trip

This is mildly terrifying, but I seem to be turning into something of a technology pundit. (Now if I were truly smart, I would figure out how to get paid for writing this stuff):

Some find my writing amusing. Judge for yourself:

A Rant on the Prefix "Cyber-"
My Brush with Royalty
Driving in the UK (might actually be useful if you are obliged to do it).