WIRED built a giant robot mech in partnership with YouTube, Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects. And now you get to see how we did it. From design to tech, prototype to insanely detailed finished product, you'll find out how to build your very own. Just bring a lot of friends and a ton of parts.

Check out how the experts at Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects came up with the mind blowing design for WIRED's 9 foot 9 inch giant robot mech that stormed this year's San Diego Comic Con. It's a rare chance to see how the biggest practical effects for Hollywood's blockbusters are built.

If you thought our finished 9' 9" Giant Robot Mech that stormed Comic Con was impressive, wait until you see the engineering that was required to make it come "alive." In this amazingly detailed part 2 of our "making-of the giant robot mech" series, Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects research and construct a working prototype exoskeleton.

It's time to build the armor and weapons for WIRED's giant robot mech and give it a paint job with realistic battle scarring. Watch as Stan Winston School and the artists from Legacy Effects turn our hulking friend into an incredible work of art ... a work of art that you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley.

The WIRED giant robot mech is STANDING TALL and looking good after it's assembly and paint job ... now it's time to BRING IT TO LIFE with Arduinos, radio controls, servos, lighting effects, voice modulators, and hidden surprises. Watch as Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects put the finishing touches on the mother of all mechs just days before it's big unveiling ...

All systems are online and it's time to test WIRED'S Giant Robot Mech ... just days before its big unveiling at the 2013 San Diego Comic-Con by Adam Savage from MythBusters and Tested. Watch as Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects put the finishing touches on the Big Guy in this penultimate episode of our Geek Week exclusive series.

WIRED’s Angry Nerd Chris Baker takes on the WIRED robot at Comic Con for a trivia test about all things robot-related. Find out how many rounds you could go with the robot and who wins.

In the CONCLUSION to WIRED's guide to building a 9 foot 9 inch tall walking, talking, mini-cannon totting GIANT ROBOT MECH, the crew from Stan Winston School and Legacy Effects reflect on a job well done. From concept to unveiling at Comic-Con, this was a labor of love, representing 2000+ man hours of work. Rest up guys, because next year ... we are bringing the Mech's BIGGER BROTHER to the show.

After Nicole debunks Henry's Buzzfeed logic, he must chose between destroying all electronic music or preserving Downton Abbey.

Game designers Mike Mika and Greg Kasavin talk about how they create video games that are fun to play but also meaningful.

With films like Kick-Ass, and now, Kick-Ass 2, cosplay vigilantes have become the new superheroes—in Hollywood's bizarro world! Angry Nerd explains why these everyday crusaders don’t cut it.

Nicole accuses Topple of treason and Topple plays the class card. But do average Americans really want to live in world where elites are held to the same standards? We think not.

"The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones" is giving the Angry Nerd a disease: colonitis. The problem: Movie titles are overusing the colon. At fault: The man who brought us such titles as "Star Wars—Episode II: Attack of the Clones."

Kate Casanova discusses what drives the concept of her art, and how it blurs the lines of humans and nature.

Genius sketch comedians Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele talk to Peter Rubin about their favorite sketches, the new season of their Comedy Central show Key & Peele, and Game of Thrones. Because Game of Thrones.

Amp up the umami at home with this recipe from our friends at Bon Appétit. Alison Roman, in the BA test kitchen, worked with Dan Felder, head of R&D at David Chang's Momofuku Culinary Lab in New York, to develop this recipe for optimum umami pow.

Get ready for the Bay! Take a sneak peek of the artists showcased in the last leg of the Station to Station series.

Senior Editor Peter Rubin sits down with the eclectic Eric Andre, Hannibal Buress, and Derrick Beckles—star of Adult Swim’s upcoming spoof celebrity news show, Hot Package—to talk about the new season of The Eric Andre Show, and the weirdest thing they’ve seen on the oddball network.

He might play a zombie slayer on-screen, but Norman Reedus swears he’d be toast during a real apocalypse. The Walking Dead star tells WIRED about his lack of survival instincts and why he’d rely on an Uber as his getaway car.

Velvet Revolver and former Guns N’ Roses guitarist, Slash, sits down to talk about scoring Anthony Leonardi III’s new horror flick, Nothing Left to Fear.

Hunky time-traveling Ichabod Crane has made Chris Baker lose his head. Why is every other TV show an updated version of some classic fairytale or children's story?

Health-conscious folks wondering if it’s politically correct to don a dust mask while in Beijing needn’t worry about causing a cultural offense. Mr. Know-It-All gives the dirt on how to avoid the dirt—and pollution—when in a foreign country.

A signature sequence in Gavin Hood’s newest film Ender’s Game is the zero-G battle room, a place where the titular character played by Asa Butterfield trains in space. Hoping to create a sense of weightlessness, the filmmakers shot actors in a mix of harnesses and on wires against a greenscreen set.

Sony’s PlayStation 4 console could re-define the gaming industry. Lead system architect Mark Cerny and Sony Computer Entertainment execs Andrew House and Shuhei Yoshida explain how—with footage (including an exclusive) from the new games designed to take advantage of the new system.

The Angry Nerd has read your comments about his loathing of Kick-Ass 2 and the trend of real-life people who become cosplay vigilantes. You have failed to convince him to change his position on the subject.

Soon, the sharpest-dressed people will be wearing computers. Wearable technology will surpass fitness trackers and Google Glass to become as important as the smartphone, the primary interface through which we experience the world. For the January issue, industrial design firm Branch envisioned the classy wearable of the future for our cover, and senior editor Bill Wasik's feature laid out a roadmap for how we'll get there.

The Hozuki lantern from Snow Peak goes for versatility around the campsite—both inside and outside the tent.

Find out how animation company Animal Logic used complex feather and muscle simulation systems to depict the prehistoric animals in Walking With Dinosaurs.

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David Eisenberg, co-founder and CEO of Floored, explains how his company transforms real estate floor plans into 3D experiences using Intel's agile technology, allowing consumers to skip the walkthrough and take a virtual 3D tour instead. Brought to you by Intel.

Director Peter Jackson and FXguide’s Mike Seymour reveal how a pivotal seven-minute action sequence in The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug was created with a combined 98 hours of footage from aerial shots, green-screen sets, live-action shoots, and complex CG environments.

Pertinent question about the Mr. Peabody and Sherman cartoon: Why? It's a half-century-old cartoon with no brand recognition. But more to the point, all these expensive reboots tend to take away the things that made the original kids' shows…weird.

For the latest reboot of sci-fi classic RoboCop, filmmakers opted for a mix of visual effects to achieve a realistic look. Fxguide’s Mike Seymour dives into the combination of creating a special effects suit for star Joel Kinnaman to wear, and the post CGI work that helped bring the half-man/half-robot to life.

Should people have the same rights and obligations online as they do in the real world? MIT computer scientist Alex “Sandy” Pentland explains how developing social networks as trusted networks will help establish a sustainable digital ecology for years to come.

Hollywood is always trying to sell us crazy computer interfaces. Wavy hands and holograms? Never gonna happen. But now Fox News is in on the game, too—and the Angry Nerd is unfairly unbalanced about the network's giant, newsgathering touch screens.

Solar, wind, and nuclear don’t make climate change worse, but they don’t meet the world’s energy needs. What can? Coal, and in the April issue Charles C. Mann writes about cleaning up the dirty, cheap fuel. Also this month: keeping your garden green, how mobile messaging captured our kids (and $19 billion from Facebook), and Mike Judge takes on Silicon Valley.

Angry Nerd is ready to demote Captain America from his current rank to lieutenant. In the Marvel superhero’s newest movie adaptation, his vibranium shield defies everything that physics and materials science has taught us. Angry Nerd calls blasphemy on the ingredient-altered shield.

In this World Economic Forum discussion, the University of Oxford’s Dr. Sonia Trigueros challenges the way we think about antibiotics and offers an alternative using the power of nanotechnology.

It was a weapon of choice in the first World War, and these days, law enforcement uses a less potent recipe of tear gas to pacify a room or control a crowd. Discover what’s inside the sensory-attacking irritant that can be deadly if used at high concentrations.

Sorry Apple, sometimes your standard iPhone weather app just doesn’t cut it. Aside from the expected temperature and humidity metrics, Netatmo’s Weather Station app also offers data on sound pollution and CO2 concentration.

In 1983 after the critical and commercial failure of Atari’s E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial video game, the company allegedly dumped millions of cartridges into a landfill in Alamogordo, N.M. Now, more than 30 years later, the site is being excavated and filmed for an upcoming docu-series by The Incredible Hulk screenwriter Zak Penn. The day before the big dig we headed south to talk with Penn about the urban legend. Plus, check out our exclusive first look at the excavation site.

Character crossovers and storyline mash-ups are nothing new. But if the premise has been done before, are the character overlaps and reincarnations worth a watch? Angry Nerd makes the case for metaphysical mash-ups, including Showtime’s new “Penny Dreadful.”

Watch a preview of our new documentary series, Teen Technorati, which follows 40 students under the age of 20 as they compete for a Thiel Fellowship. Created by investor Peter Thiel, the $2 million fund awards $100,000 to 20 winners who will have to drop out of school to further develop their individual medical, technology, and design-based projects. From team challenges to a lightning pitch in front of the judges, see who makes the cut as the next generation of young, innovative entrepreneurs.

In this episode of Teen Technorati, the 40 finalists are split up into teams and tasked with building a bridge made out of LEGO. Only one team emerges as the winner, but during the challenge the finalists’ leadership and problem-solving skills begin to surface. Plus, fellowship hopefuls Ishaan Gulrajani, Lucy Guo, Darby Schumacher, and Catherine Ray explain the concepts behind their individual Thiel projects.

The 1990s saw the rise—and fall—of virtual reality. While everyone could imagine a technology that allowed us to be somewhere else, no one was able to make it happen. No one, that is, until an 18-year-old named Palmer Luckey invented the Oculus Rift. We speak with Luckey and other Oculus employees about how they managed to crack one of technology's toughest riddles and make VR feasible for the first time. Music: "Disco Kerosene" Performed By Circa Tapes (http://circatapes.bandcamp.com/)

We’ve long imagined a device that renders virtual reality that's indistinguishable from the outside world. In the June issue, Senior Editor Peter Rubin explores the Oculus Rift—a VR headset doing just that. Also this month: creating a museum from the ruins of 2,983 lives, the surprising science of the hangover, and the quantum computer that maybe isn’t. Music: "On Pagaie" Performed By: HUMANS (http://dashumans.com/)

After Roland Emmerich missed the mark with Godzilla in 1998, we had reason to be skeptical of Gareth Edwards’ new remake. Fxguide’s Mike Seymour goes inside the special effects behind the latest incarnation, in which effects company MPC designed the largest Godzilla yet, featuring an animalistic appearance with anthropomorphized traits.

Angelina Jolie stars in Disney’s new Maleficent, featuring a forest world of detailed visual effects. Mike Seymour delves into how facial movement experts Digital Domain, worked to re-create realistic, fully digital counterparts to the story’s three fairies.

After a weekend of activities and final pitches, the 40 students get ready to pack up their things and head back to reality until the 20 fellowships are awarded. In this episode, the students reflect back on what they’ve learned over the past few days, and what they’ll do if chosen as a 2014 Thiel Fellow.