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Steam-powered robots and hacked bugs: a visit to I-Wei Huang's garage

Mark Frauenfelder at 9:34 am Fri, Feb 15, 2013

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Wired visited the garage of my friend I-Wei Huang, which is loaded with his delightful little creations, including a Strandbeest-style hamster ball walker. (For his day job, I-Wei designs the characters for the Skylanders games.)

Wired garage interview with I-Wei Huang

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Mark Frauenfelder is the founder of Boing Boing and the editor-in-chief of MAKE and Cool Tools. Twitter: @frauenfelder. Come and hear Mark speak at the ALA conference in Chicago on July 1.

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