Homemade Tube Bender

Coming This Summer: Innovation to Blow Your Mind

On cash and brand new tools valued up to the same amount.  All you have to do is show up (it's a public park, it's free, people) and get inspired.

THE JUDGES

When gauging the work done by a wild pack of engineers, architects, coders and visual artists, you need a panel of a similar ilk. Which is precisely why these judges will be at the helm:

Starting with , Senior Technology Editor at a little magazine called Popular Mechanics.  So no pressure, folks!

LIVE PERFORMANCES: ECLECTIC METHOD + THAT 1 GUY

Scientific fact: All strokes of brilliance must be backed by the perfect soundtrack. And who better to do that than the globe's most sought after slice-n-dice masters of sound + vision, Eclectic Method?! The renowned UK trio bent on mashing-up debaucherous pop culture video cocktails and attracting millions of viewers will be on-hand for an exclusive live performance. To give a brief history of Eclectic Method would be to say they've been previously tapped to team up with (total nobodies) U2, Public Enemy, Motown Records and the Cannes Film Fest.  Bummer of a resume, bros.

Meanwhile, be on the lookout for a show by That 1 Guy. Ya know, the awe-inspiring one-man band who's realized and built his own Frankensteinian vision of the bass: the aptly-named Magic Pipe. 7-feet high with strange concoctions of buttons and strings, the Magic Pipe is the harp-like invention on which That 1 Guy busts out some otherworldly future funk jams.  In sum, these performances are somethin' no one with eyes and/or ears will want to miss.

THE WILD CARDS

Back in May, the first 10 teams were announced--but anyone with the latest model abacus knew there were 6 left to be unveiled. So here's the breakdown on Red Bull Creation's lovingly-deemed Wild Cards--AKA the teams that are gonna shake the whole thing up:

Techshop -- gathered a crew dedicated to unscrewing the inscrutable.  A redneck physicist who likes to play with fire, a red crested robot monkey that codes like a savant, an heir to an amusement empire searching for the gaming grail and a landlocked baconmaker who tinkers with things best left alone, united around the idea of creating the perfect mobile home. When the talents of these four are combined the secrets of the universe are safe.

Homemade Season Extension Tube Bender – Hope Bay Farm

Been working on an alternative tube bending device that would allow us to bend electrical conduit tubing in a similar manner to that done by the device sold by Johnny’s Selected Seeds . Was able to borrow a Johnny’s 4′ diameter bender to trace the curve. Used three pieces of scrap plywood to make the form and a U-bolt at the end to trap the tube. Now that I know it works I’m going to build some large diameter forms.

Why do this when the benders sold by Johnny’s are fairly affordable? Well up here in Canada, the shipping costs to bring larger items in from the States are prohibitively expensive. It’s also nice to make things for oneself out of scrap.

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