{"id":957,"date":"2012-02-10T00:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/sarriugarte-and-mates-serpent-twins-snake-vehicles\/"},"modified":"2012-02-10T00:59:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T00:59:00","slug":"sarriugarte-and-mates-serpent-twins-snake-vehicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/10\/sarriugarte-and-mates-serpent-twins-snake-vehicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarriugarte and Mate&#8217;s Serpent Twins snake vehicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Very nice. -egg]<\/p>\n<div>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~3\/sxGqn6oEwhY\/sarriugarte-and-mates-serpen.html\">Sarriugarte and Mate&#8217;s Serpent Twins snake vehicles<\/a><span>:<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/boingboing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/wordpress_wp-content_uploads_2011_09_DSC_0534_2011_09_04_5137.jpg?resize=600%2C398\" height=\"398\" width=\"600\" align=\"left\" alt=\" WordPress Wp-Content Uploads 2011 09 Dsc 0534 2011 09 04 5137\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Above is video of the incredible Serpent Twins, two slithering vehicles created by the incredibly talented maker couple Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate. You may recall that Jon and Kyrsten are the creators of such exquisite biomechanical transports as the <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/01\/07\/snail-car-and-20k-in.html\">Golden Mean<\/a> snail car that I wrote about in MAKE <a href=\"http:\/\/www.make-digital.com\/make\/vol16\/?pg=20#pg20\">here<\/a> and the zippy <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2009\/09\/23\/sarriugarte-and-mate.html\">Electrobyte<\/a> trilobite car. The Serpent Twins are in the running for the Boca Bearings 2012 Innovation Competition grand prize of $10,000 that will be awarded to the best &#8220;innovative mechanical project that utilizes ball bearings, roller bearings, linear bearings or any form of full ceramic or ceramic hybrid bearings anywhere in the application.&#8221; Jon and Kyrsten say that if they win they&#8217;ll use the prize money to &#8220;buy a stacker trailer to transport our beasts to events like Maker Faire, schools, and festivals to inspire the next generation of artists, engineers and makers.&#8221; All I can say is that they have my vote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bocabearings.com\/innovation-contest\/ContestantDetails.aspx?ProjectID=22\">Vote for The Serpent Twins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/formandreform.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=4444\">More about the The Serpent Twins <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=f634e14b5fc71274450de8b6140dc07e&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=f634e14b5fc71274450de8b6140dc07e&#038;p=1\"><\/a><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/tags.bluekai.com\/site\/5148\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/insight.adsrvr.org\/track\/evnt\/?ct=0:dupdmqp&#038;adv=wouzn4v&#038;fmt=3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/boingboing\/iBag\/~4\/sxGqn6oEwhY\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Very nice. -egg] Sarriugarte and Mate&#8217;s Serpent Twins snake vehicles: Above is video of the incredible Serpent Twins, two slithering vehicles created by the incredibly talented maker couple Jon Sarriugarte and Kyrsten Mate. You may recall that Jon and Kyrsten are the creators of such exquisite biomechanical transports as the Golden Mean snail car that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pfIY-fr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.novonon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}