Hi everyone!  My name is Stephanie LaBelle and I'm a mechanical
engineering student at Texas A&M University, class of 2001,
A-A-A-A-A-A!! (Sorry, it's an Aggie thing!)

My primary interest is in animatronics and making them appear lifelike
in both their movements and their "speech."  I am also interested in
learning as much as I can about all the interesting things that can be
done with machines.

Stephanie LaBelle

 [ Welcome, Stephanie!  This is a good place to learn lots of skills.
 [ Did you ever see the original air-operated animatronics in the
 [ Tiki Hut at Disneyland?  It used a lot of wood-and-leather
 [ technology, just like our old player pianos.  We also have articles
 [ on the really old-time automatons: visit the MMD archives at
 [   http://mmd.foxtail.com/archives  and search for keyword "Automata".
 [ And you _must_ read about the Disney engineering work at
 [   http://venus.aros.net/~pov.issue06-7/aa.html
 [ Do you like to make things, Stephanie?  -- Robbie