Karakuri | halfblog.net Skip to primary content halfblog.net things that amuse and confuse me Search Main menu Home About Follow Foomandoonian Disambloguation Header images Comments policy Short films Action Animation Comedy Crime Documentary Drama Fantasy Horror Sci-fi War Explore… Random post Stuff I created The Campaign Against Crap Infographics Post navigation ← Previous Next → Karakuri Video Posted on 18 July 2011 by Geoff Japan has always been on the forefront of cutting edge robotics. Its roots can be traced back 200-300 years during the Edo period when skilled craftsmen created automata (self-operating machines). Using nothing more than pulleys and weights they were able to make the Karakuri (Japanese automata) perform amazing tasks. Japan’s modern day robots can be traced back to the Karakuri. Today Hideki Higashino is one of the few remaining craftsmen who is determined to keep the history and tradition of Japanese Karakuri alive. Karakuri by Matthew Allard Share & enjoy: Tweet Email More Share on Tumblr Like this: Like Loading... Related This entry was posted in Documentary and tagged Chroma Feed, culture, Japan, robots by Geoff. Bookmark the permalink. You should read… The Russians used a pencil Some very cool WordPress plugins Some of the strangest videos you will ever see An idea for the iPhone home button Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that not just anyone can edit The Telegraph thought councillor thought cloud computing depended on rainy weather Four fantastic WordPress logos The future is boring Container Bob Flighty birds: My free Creative Commons designs that keep getting stolen anyway and The Adventures of Boggle, the Creative Commons penguin Top Posts & Pages The infographics of xkcd The Russians used a pencil Flowers from Virgin Media The apps that Apple really does not want you to use Dimensional drawings for Apple hardware Infographic creators have a 5 second attention span Trey Gets Stoned Phytoplankton bloom, seen from space Internet friends Spike Dennis Matt Joyce – themeekshall Jason Stanley – CreativeJUUS Steve Morgan – SEOno Neil Cocker Renato Pequito Main categories Cardiff Design Geeky Infographics Miscellania Social media Technology Web Ye olde tag cloud 550D advertising Apple art atheism BBC behind the scenes blogging brainfart business canon CGI Chroma Feed comics comments computer game copyright crap infographics Creative Commons crowdfunding culture Datahole Dr Who dystopia events Facebook fan film film free funny future games Google hyperlocal icons idea Inkscape iPhone journalism LightWave Linux Mac Minecraft news New York Open Paper open source photos piracy politics Posterous privacy rants review robots science fiction search software space Star Trek surreal Torchwood Twitter UX VFX video wallpapers webcomic WikiLeaks Wikipedia WordPress.com WordPress.org writing YouTube zombies July 2011 M T W T F S S 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 « Jun Aug » Count 'em 800,044 hits since Sept 2011 832,587 spam blocked by Akismet My recent Pinboard.in links t: A command-line power tool for Twitter The CLI takes syntactic cues from the Twitter SMS commands, but it offers vastly more commands and capabilities than are available via SMS. Audiotool Audiotool is a powerful online music production studio right in your browser. Epic Pen Free screen marker and desktop annotation tool for Windows Abundant Music Abundant Music is a procedural music generator that doesn't require any musical knowledge to generate music. Pinout The comprehensive GPIO Pinout guide for the Raspberry Pi. Fantasy name generators I find myself at this site every time I need a name for an Elder Scrolls or Dragon Age character, etc, but it's actually an incredible resource for writers of fantasy and science fiction works looking for not just character names, but place names, vehicle names, drink names, drug dames, disease names and many, many more. Inform 7 Inform is a design system for interactive fiction based on natural language. It is a radical reinvention of the way interactive fiction is designed, guided by contemporary work in semantics and by the practical experience of some of the world's best-known writers of IF. Storyspace Storyspace 3 is a tool for writing and reading hypertext narrative, for fictional and nonfictional stories told with links. Long the tool of choice for serious hypertext writers, Storyspace now offers new features, new tools, and unmatched elegance for handling complex stories with ease. Follow Following halfblog.net Join 6,923 other followers Sign me up Already have a WordPress.com account? Log in now. halfblog.net Customize Follow Following Sign up Log in Copy shortlink Report this content View post in Reader Manage subscriptions Collapse this bar Loading Comments... Write a Comment... Email (Required) Name (Required) Website %d bloggers like this: