The Institute gets into MUSCYCLE – A pedal powered concert. 15 Jul 2013 | 06:45 am

Just been at Muscycle Pedal powered concert in Carlton Victoria with colleague Phil Gerner, where we took the still-being-developed bicycle powered twittering machine for an outing. It’s …almost there...

“The Lost Tools of Henry Hoke” on the ABC! 9 Jul 2013 | 07:42 am

Henry Hoke, the hitherto unknown Australian inventor who has become a major research project for IBYS, will be the subject of a 21 part documentary series for the ABC next year. “The Lost Tools of He...

Twittering Machine 24 Jun 2013 | 08:07 am

Avian augury – the use of birds to foretell the future – has a fabulous history. Every morning I hear them telling me to get up and make the best of the day. How to capture that indescribably beautif...

The Shearing Days 3 Jun 2013 | 11:57 am

Recent research work by IBYS associates has thrown more light on Australian Inventor Henry Hoke’s “missing years” which currently seem to be fairly elastic – they could have taken up most of his life....

Adelaide 17 May 2013 | 06:38 am

See what you missed, including this mighty smoke ring puffer…. In the Adelaide Maker Faire photo album here.

Genuine offer for you and your bike hacking mates! 8 Feb 2013 | 04:55 am

The cutting edge of Codgerism in the 21st century? 11 Dec 2012 | 11:59 am

A group of IBYS Associates met recently at the newly opened FabLab Adelaide to get a run-through about what all the new digital fabrication world might mean. This is a subject a few of us have had som...

Here’s an interesting project! 11 Oct 2012 | 07:04 am

In April 2013 in Adelaide it looks possible there will be a public event celebrating the pleasures of making stuff in every conceivable way. Something like this maybe: http://makerfaire.com/ We’re loo...

Broken Hill String 21 Sep 2012 | 06:52 am

I’ve been up in Broken Hill and surrounding areas recently working on the wire project – which is about all the resourceful ways that people use wire to repair, adapt, create. I’ve been on the track o...

Feel like having a bit of the Titanic around the house or shed? 12 Sep 2012 | 12:07 pm

One of our new areas of activity (mainly for Mark Thomson and Chris Block) is designing and building museum displays. We did one earlier this year about the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Tit...