I am Myspace’s featured Artist of the Day for December 5, 2013! Cool beans.
Goldieblox: The Princess Machine
GoldieBlox is a company that makes really neat engineering toys geared towards girls. I worked with them to create this Rube Goldberg Machine in October and November of 2013. The build took about 2 1/2 weeks, and I had a crew of 5, including Paul Thompson, Craig Simmons, Robin Carpenter, Eric Mesple, and Rebecca Thompson. […]
Interview in NPR’s Science Friday Blog
I was interviewed by Justin Nobel in this great piece on Science Friday, Building the World’s Fastest Gumball Machine..
Automatic Lamp Snuffer for Google
I created 75 of these little machines for Google. They were given as gifts to people who had been speakers at the Zeitgeist Americas 2012 conference. The parts were waterjetted from 16 gauge stainless steel, then welded together and powdercoated. I did a run of 4 different colors to match Google’s pallette, and […]
Cellairis Tweet Punisher
I was commissioned by Mohawk Digital and The M.A.D.E. agency to design and build this machine for Cellairis, maker of protective gear for smart phones. The Twitter Punisher is an automated typewriter whose keys are actuated by solenoids. It is driven by software written by Tom Jennings. The system scrapes a twitter feed for messages with […]
Jalopnik.com: The Man Behind The World’s Biggest Rube Goldberg Machines Explains How You Control Chaos
Jason Torchinsky wrote up a nice interview with me in Jalopnik about Red Bull Kluge.
Red Bull Kluge
Red Bull “Kluge” from David G Wilson on Vimeo. This past October, I was in Orange County CA building this machine for Red Bull. I was a lead engineer working with about 20 other very talented builders. We shot it at the former El Toro Marine Base, (now known as The Great Park). […]
Room Dividers
I designed and fabricated these mobile room dividers to subdivide a large studio room at CalArts. One of the challenges of the space was that natural light only came in through one window in a corner of the room, so it was important that a sense of “lightness” was preserved. The panels are made […]
Scientific American Psychology Film Series
Scientific American Psychology Film Series | Trailer from Couple 3 Films on Vimeo. In April I worked with Noah Hutton and Couple 3 films to create some contraptions for a series of short films for Scientific American. What I created was a machine to illustrate Pavlovian Conditioning, (where a stimulus, like the ringing of a […]
Roger Ebert Weighs In on OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass”
Roger Ebert declares OK Go’s “This Too Shall Pass” the Most Ingenious Music Video Ever Made.
