The Make magazine blog post was confusing in that it seemed to equate The Lumbering Contraption with the Nose Picker. They are completely separate projects by different crews. The only noses we pick are our own.

Hey all

If I may, let me just set the record straight.

The Lumbering Contraption does NOT pick noses. It never did and never will. The Disgusting Spectacle was a nose-picking device built by another group of makers a few years ago that incorporated a large-scale hamster type wheel.

This particular ”Hot-Rod Hamster Wheel of Death” is being built by The Tree House Crew... www.steamtreehouse.com at Louise Street Labs in Oakland, of whom Alan Rorie of Almost Scientific is a member.

It was designed in a drunken artistic frenzy at a seedy bar in the Mission, SF... on a beer stained napkin... mocked up with cardboard... scaled up with aluminum and finally put into Solidworks

We’re building it for the ”The Great West End and Railroad Square Handcar Regatta and Exposition of Mechanical and Artistic Wonders!” http://handcar-regatta.com/

Thanks
Sean Orlando

I had the pleasure of working on both The Disgusting Spectacle, and the Lumbering Contraption. The Disgusting Spectacle was the brainchild of artists Tracy Feldstein and Don Bruce. It was built in 2005 in Oakland CA. More info on that project can be found here:http://laughingsquid.com/the-disgusting-spectacle/

Thanks Sean and Christopher.. I guess the article at the source was indeed misleading. Apologies for the goof-up.