Our story with Crohn's Disease continues with the 2006 Get Your Guts in Gear ride for Crohn's Disease & Colitis. Visit our GYGIG page to learn more about the ride, see pictures of last year's ride and support the cause. Inside Out Life Story is an artwork that combines robotics, art music, automated sets and lighting effects, and artificial intelligence to tell the story of our 2004: the year we got married, a year of endless war, the elections, robots on Mars and of course the year of our first colostomy bag. Inside Out is a story about a sick person and their partner, life in the hospital and the process of shifting back and forth between two disparate worlds. Our miniature robotic self-portraits, along with a cast of bio-inspired mechatronic characters, will attempt to convey, with synchronized narratives, music and animations, the terrifying and hilarious world that appears after visiting hours.   This site will chronicle the development of Inside Out Life Story as both a laboratory notebook and blog. It will function as a repository for engineering resources and a personal project diary. In collaboration with the Eyebeam Atelier and Human Emulation Robotics, Robot Clothes is also developing a Do It Yourself (DIY) Humanoid Robot KIT. The DIY KIT will include mechanical, electrical and software designs, JAVA and C code, printable 3D models and circuits, parts lists, instructions for fabrication, assembly and integration, and test plans. Kit resources will be linked to relevant blog and lab notebook entries, as well as user comments in order to provide thorough, anecdotal and evolving step-by-step instructions. The kit will also include templates, examples and descriptions of our hybrid arts/commercial design process, which combines a CAD/CAM approach, aerospace project management tools and the holistic R&D practices employed by most artists. The goal of this design process has been to enable the production of more archival, reliable and technically ambitious robotic artworks. All the contents of the DIY Humanoid Robot KIT are licensed under the Creative Commons’ Attribution-Noncommercial-ShareAlike 2.0 commons deed. Help us to use, modify and extend the DIY Humanoid Robot KIT for noncommercial and shared applications. We would be glad to host your DIY kit contributions. Contact powderly at robot clothes dot com for further information. Artists & collaborators: Michelle Kempner, James Powderly, Brett Klisch, Dustyn Roberts, Seth Frader-Thompson, Tom Kennedy, Sameer Kapoor, Todd Polenberg, Jessica Findley, Jim Kempner, Mike DeFeo