High-school students Sam DeRose and Alex Jacobson have constructed Saphira, a fire-breathing, Arduino-controlled animatronic dragon (named in homage to the protagonist of Christopher Paolini’s Inheritance trilogy).
You can see her in person at the Maker Faire at San Mateo County Event Center, May 22 and 23. (Via Make: Online.)
Mar 28
DeviantArt user toge-NYC created this wonderful white dragon with plastic kitchenware. Just look at it.
Mar 24
Here’s an image from the Baje Nalozki Sagen Brauchtum (Book of Woodcut Artwork), courtesy of the image gallery at the Texas Wendish Museum. (The gallery is an autoplaying slide show, so I regret I cannot link directly to the source image.)
I’m not exactly sure what’s going on here, but I’m sure there’s a story behind it.
Caption ideas (even NSFW-ish ones, if they’re funny) are welcome in the comments.
Feb 15
Kids these days and their hot-rod automobiles. What’s that? A dragon. Oh, well played sir. Well played.
From Wackii via Jalopnik.
Via Originally spotted on the incomparable That Will Buff Out.
I present for your consideration what may well be the most inefficient possible method for getting rid of snow. However, it makes up in style what it lacks in practicality.
2.5MB AVI Video (locally hosted)
Feb 9
As you know, Bob, Duncan & Mallory is a collaborative comic created by Mel White and Robert Lynn Asprin. Set in a not-quite-Earth fantasy setting of ambiguous place and time, it concerns the adventures of one Duncan (disgraced human warrior) and J. P. Mallory (small silver dragon temporarily between jobs). Released in 1986 by Starblaze, it never achieved the notoriety widespread recognition it (IMHO) deserves.
What you may not know (comma Bob comma) is that it is now being re-released, on the web, a bit at a time, for free. More details after the jump.
Not this sort of text-based game.
Upstart start-up Choice of Games offers up a fine debut effort with the text-based (but tasty) Choice of the Dragon. Versions are available for the iPhone and Android, or you can play in your Javascript-enabled browser for free. The game owes some of its narrative structure to the old choose-your-own-adventure paperbacks, but adds some CRPG flexibility — mostly behind the scenes, so you need never worry about the mechanics.
In my opinion, more RPGs should track “disdain” as a stat. I certainly found this one worthy of repeated playthroughs. Via io9 by way of Gizmodo.
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