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Want to try a junkyard build at your next company event? Would you like to have a Junkyard Warrior visit your school? Interested
in a team-building event? The
Rubbish Deconstruction League has
corporate and school programs available.
Crash
Our self described mad inventor, Ph.D., and
the oldest of the bunch. Holds a bunch of patents, and restored the
Land Rover that he drives to work. A ham radio operator, he is a
devotee of Milwaukee power tools. In 2007, he eloped with his long time partner, Penny. We appointed him Captain, since
they wouldn't let us call him Chief Designer. He even decided he
liked the job. For more details, check out his
home
page.
dp
(Jeff)The
organizer and actual leader of the team (also webmaster, mailer of T shirts,
speaker to travel agents, etc.), recumbent
bicycle
obsessed (I design and build my own,
see Frankenbike
and Trondholm,
our tandem, or the The Busycle), and the most heavily bearded. (I am told that made me
the prime candidate for captain, but I managed to avoid it.) Besides
the bicycles, and this team web page, I build musical instruments, ring
churchbells, take pictures with a plate camera, and read entirely too much.
As a side effect of the Junkyard alumni reunion, I have joined Team
Tormentum, building siege weapons, primarily
for tossing pumpkins. More details
here.
Geo
Machine
artist, designer, computer scientist, futurist, extreme engineer.
Has former lives in electrical engineering, robotics, and robotic
art. Currently he makes music
with fire, and having escaped with his Phd from MIT, can now be found on the left coast, at Squid labs. The first audition was
filmed in the Chinatown loft he calls home. Our diver, he got the
job of piloting The
Nautilus, our submarine. Be sure to check out
his
home page, the machines he has worked on are
simply amazing.
Look at Submarine Design Notes for more details than the TV show has time for. Peer inside the skin of the Nautilus.
We
flew, we built, we conquered. A delightful, but exhausting time was
had by all.
Wired.com's Michelle Dellio interviewed Jeff, and Steve Garfith one of the British experts, and wrote Who Wants To Be a Gearhead? This was picked up by Slashdot which resulted in the usual blizzard of hits, and over 100 comments. The whole team was interviewed by Michael Park, and Fox News published U.S. Gadgeteer's Appear on British 'Junk' Show. Chris Szechenyi, of the Boston Globe's online edition wrote Turning junk into science. The paper edition of the Globe ran its own article. We also had our first live interview, on Baltimore radio station WQSR's morning show. Chris Wright of the Boston Phoenix interviewed Jeff and Crash, resulting in Techno Trash: Junk Bonds. Shortly before our show broadcast in the US, we appeared on The Computer Report show on WCAP radio in Lowell. While not mentioning us by name, a review of the show in Maxim online used a photo of Crash and I with the Nautilus.
Scrapheap Alumni
- There is a participants only mailing list. Contact
dp for more information.
This planet needs a lot more kids that think taking a lawnmower's engine apart is more fun than playing video games.
This entire site copyright 2000-2007 by Jeff Del Papa, and The New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society. We each did our personal pages. Crash gets credit for 90% of the Survivor Comparison and 10% of the Iron Chef comparison. DP gets credit for 90% of the Iron Chef comparison and 10% of the Survivor Comparison. Jamie drew our logo on a background by Mark Fisher. Geo did the fancy edit of the audition video. Crash took some of the pictures used, dp, Susan, Dominic McCarthy, and Jared took the rest. Tony Finn contributed the drawing of the injector, and Mark Burgess provided the pictures taken at the Donnington exhibition. DP is to blame for the rest of the text, backgrounds, and graphic design. Thanks extended to Susan for copy editing Jeff's sometimes tortured prose. Links to the site (or any page within) welcome, let me know if you want a link back. Any excerpting or off-web publication of material from this site must be cleared with dp prior to publication. (Use of material for educational or news purposes permitted without advance permission if the top-level link (http:www.the-nerds.org) is included.)