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Star Wars at Fan Expo San Francisco 2024

As we are getting for ready for this year's SF Fan Expo, we wanted to post about last year's fun! ...
The Hip Monsters workshop.

Intro to Our Workshop!

In this video Ted from the HipMonster's team shows our workshop and describes how we train our robots. We have ...

Street Art in Taipei

While visiting Taipei we went to the Wanhua district, famous for its amazing street art. It is located in Taipei's ...
Two steampunk robots in a video

Fully Autonomous Robots

This video is the first time we were able to record two of our robots talking autonomously. While we were ...
Maker Faire Bay Area

Maker Faire Bay Area Robot’s View

Thanks to everyone who helped this year's Maker Faire Bay Area be so special! We are looking forward to seeing ...
RaspberryPi DIY Laptop

Getting Started with Raspberry PI

Originally, we set up this site to focus on woodcrafting and painting but as our interests grew, we have increasingly ...

Bell Hopper – Contraption Delta

For our upcoming Maker Faire presentation we wanted to make robotics more approachable. One barrier to robotics is, by its ...
Leibniz Calculator

Leibniz Calculator- Contraption Gamma

For the upcoming Maker Faire the Hip Monster's sisters team wanted a challenge. Something that required precision and also aligned ...

Number One On Its Own

Number One looks very simple, it's just a burnt out hair drier with wheels. As out first design we opted ...

Bay Area Maker Faire Update

The HipMonster's team was quiet online over the summer but working hard in our workshop finishing up our educational presentation ...