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Ever wish a medieval castle was just a drive away? In you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you ...

This cute little wooden cat was a quick build from some leftover pieces. We wanted a simple toy that would ...

The Hip Monsters team was thrilled to be invited to a Maker Fest last week at Ecole Bilingue in Berkeley, ...

We decided to finally make an attempt to build a Dingbot robot based on the girl genius web comics. Please ...

As well as working with technology, the Hip Monsters team also works with magic. This is our handmade apothecary cabinet, ...

We had a lot of fun at the First Robotics Competition at St Ignatius College Preparatory in San Francisco CA. We ...

At the beginning of the Covid pandemic, we wanted to create magic for ourselves and our friends and hone our ...

This pneumatic robotic arm workshop is design to introduce basic concepts of robotics and making to grade-school students. The design ...

We have started upgrading all our robot to run the new RobotFreedom.AI framework. For Number Ten, the main missing piece ...

We make wands to relax and to practice our woodworking skills. The process usually involves spokeshaving, sanding, staining, and waxing ...

Whenever we go to Valencia Street in San Francisco, we always go to one of our favorite stores called Paxton ...

Since our last update at Maker Faire, we've made significant improvements to our robot lineup, focusing on increasing autonomy, human ...

The RobotFreedom robots are controlled by two code bases. The first runs on a RaspberryPi and is written in Python ...

We are learning weight is everything when it comes to good performance from our robots. One of our best jumpers, ...

When people visit our workshop, the first thing they would see is a big box of parts labeled S13. The ...

These are old carvings that we forgot to post. We were inspired by the Chinese wax seals and wanted to ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The HipMonster's sister team decided to push our robotics to the next level. They were dissatisfied with remote controlled robots ...

When designing Robot Freedom, our educational presentation on robotics, the HipMonsters  team wanted to make robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) ...

We are delighted to say the Hip Monsters will present Robot Freedom at the this year Bay Area Maker Faire! ...

The HipMonster.com's team was invited to do a middle school robotics presentation last month to show kids the fun side ...

This post is an old one we forgot to publish a while back. Currently, Number Three is controlled by a ...

One thing we have always been jealous of is tails. Cats and dogs flaunt them as they strut around waving ...

As presents for our teachers last year, we decided to make a series of wooden seals. We chose cats because ...

Our pony carving was inspired by Pinkie Pie from My Little Pony. We love Pinkie Pie's bright outlook and humor! ...

Here is a preview of HipMonsters.com's next project, Robot Freedom. No robots were destroyed making this, but Number Three had ...

This is an introduction to one of our favorite making materials, Foam-Mo. Foam-Mo is really great for making models of ...

What do you do if you break a pot? This fun DIY moss terrarium will teach you a great way ...

jfheTo support the San Francisco Zoo, the HipMonsters' sisters team, and a neighborhood friend decided to sell jewelry to raise ...

After finishing Number three, we wanted to make smaller and lighter walking robots. Leveraging what we had learned from building ...

Inspired by the character Professor Sprout (from Harry Potter) and this wonderful article, we set out to make our mandrake ...

Since we discovered how to make Number Five move, we decided to upgrade Number Three. We tried to preserve as ...

The Summer 2023 release of the Color Splash Collection is in! Made from wood and painted in acrylic paint, each ...

One of the small projects that we do is make herbal potions, tiny jars or pouches full of crushed up ...

Inspired by Harry Potter, the HipMonsters team made our own Hand of Glory out of Foam-Mo. The Hand of Glory ...

This is our wooden deer sculpture, made as a Christmas present. We only used wood from our yard to make ...

It was the end of the school year and we want to make a toy for one of our teachers ...

Girl Genius is a webcomic started in 2002 written by Phil and Kaja Foglio and colored by Cheyenne Wright about ...

Gardening season has started and we want to talk about one of our favorite flowers, Senecio Stellata (Cineraria). They add ...

Inspired by the Boston Dynamics robot videos, steampunk art, and Girl Genius, the HipMonster team set out to make their ...

Where technology and beauty meet, our steampunk jewelry embraces the genius within! This collection of steampunk jewelry is fit for ...

After building a number of dovetail puzzle boxes the HipMonsters sister team set out to make their own unique design ...

We wanted to give people a scare on Halloween and was inspired by a visit to Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum so ...

We decided to make a special present for our teachers at school. One of the teachers really loved alligators, so ...

The Hip Monsters team decided to make something that interests people when they walk into the room. Inspired by Girl ...

With all the potion-making we have been doing recently, we found that we needed a place to put our potion ...

The Hip Monster's sister team has created a DIY pump drill.  Pump drills are ancient tools used by many cultures ...

Every wand we craft has unique mythos and a special spell. This wand is called the Flame Tamer. Mythos Flame ...

Every wand we craft has unique mythos and a special spell. This wand is called the Scarlet Sunset. Mythos Scarlet ...

Getting started Need to track the moon phases for that perfect time to cast a spell? Worried about when you ...

When the sisters team discovered Transformer comics (Go WindBlade!) they wanted a whole city of Transformers to play with. While ...

Severus Snape and Professor Sprout are two of our favorite characters in Harry Potter, and their story inspired the sister team ...