Steampunk

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

We saw the need for a new robot for halloween, so we made one. This is our steampunk squirrel powered ...

Born from one of our favorite bushes and a failed costume, Lin the dragon was our most complex monster at ...

The hummingbird monster was made from a branch too weak to be used for other projects. We decided to make ...

We call this monster the Anteater.  The Anteater monster was a wonderful branch that was too split to make a ...

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

The HipMonsters team does not like trees going to waste, so whenever we stumble upon a piece of wood too ...