From mlists at resistive.net Tue Sep 9 13:47:40 2008 From: mlists at resistive.net (Nick Pietraniec) Date: Tue Sep 9 13:48:36 2008 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] dorkbot17: Gore, music, and more Message-ID: <1220982460.1481.8.camel@phosphorus.austin.ibm.com> Thursday, September 18, 7PM Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35) (512) 236-8634 Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event. http://www.dorkbotaustin.org * Meredith Johns and Carolyn O'Hara from Hawgfly show off their gore cannon http://www.hawgfly.com/gorecannon.html * Edwin Wise is back with a preview of the Abyssal Organ tech he'll be setting up at Maker Faire and using in the Scare for a Cure haunt. * Music showcasing the big box-o-techno http://ericarcher.net/devices/big-box-o-techno/ by Operation Playmate - Erich Ragsdale, Eric Archer, and Chad A * Nick Pietraniec brings a work-in-progress guitar hero-bot. Coming up: ====== 1. Maker Faire Austin - Oct 18-Oct 19 : www.makerfaire.com ====== 2. dorkbotaustin18 - Nov 20th (tentative date, check website for details) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20080909/87933335/attachment.html From mlists at resistive.net Wed Sep 17 13:11:12 2008 From: mlists at resistive.net (Nick Pietraniec) Date: Wed Sep 17 13:12:55 2008 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] dorkbot tomorrow Message-ID: <1221671472.13334.6.camel@phosphorus.austin.ibm.com> Hi All - The Hawgfly folks are without a target for tomorrow. If anyone has anything exciting to act as a gore cannon target... Or something less exciting like some big boxes or something, let us know http://www.hawgfly.com/gorecannon.html -Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20080917/d15dc0b0/attachment.html From mlists at resistive.net Wed Sep 17 20:43:12 2008 From: mlists at resistive.net (mlists@resistive.net) Date: Wed Sep 17 20:43:23 2008 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] [Fwd: Huge Electronics Garage Sale: Sept 20th 10:00am - 6:00pm] Message-ID: <64109.71.145.172.105.1221698592.squirrel@www.resistive.net> Vern asked me to forward this on -Nick ---------------------------- Original Message ---------------------------- Subject: Request: Could you post this to the dorkbot list for me? From: "Vern Graner" Date: Wed, September 17, 2008 5:18 pm To: "Nick Pietraniec" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick: Could you post this to the dorkbot Austin list for me? I'd really appreciate it! :) Vern ------------------------ CLIP ------------------------- Huge Electronics Garage Sale: Sept 20th 10:00am - 6:00pm Electronics & Technology Garage Sale! ====================================== We've moved and we just don't have room for *all* the treasure! We're selling the stuff that just won't fit in our new place. Boxes and boxes of items, some new, some repairable, some for parts: -Computers and computer components -Vintage Computing devices -Software and Software manuals -Technology/computer Books -Vintage Technology Magazines -Electronic Components -Halloween Props -MIDI equipment -Audio & Video equipment -Electronic Toys & parts -Cabling and connectors -Much more too eclectic and varied to list! Boxes and tables full of the odds and ends of over 30 YEARS of active electronics, technology and robotics "hobbying" up for grabs! ----------------------------------- WHERE: 2213 Kaiser Drive Austin Tx: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=2213+kaiser+drive+austin+texas&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.223579,79.101563&ie=UTF8&z=17&iwloc=addr tiny version of above link: http://preview.tinyurl.com/4o6m6j ----------------------------------- WHEN: Saturday, Sept 20th 10:00am - 6:00pm We have some "conventional" stuff as well including clothes, kitchenware and some furniture. Please come by and have a look-see! :) Thanks! Vern ------------------------/CLIP ------------------------- -- Vern Graner CNE/CNA/SSE | "If the network is down, then you're Senior Systems Engineer | obviously incompetent so why are we Texas Information Services | paying you? Of course, if the network http://www.txis.com | is up, then we obviously don't need Austin Office 512 328-8947 | you, so why are we paying you?" ?VLG From luke at lukeiseman.com Thu Sep 18 05:22:36 2008 From: luke at lukeiseman.com (Luke Iseman) Date: Thu Sep 18 05:22:47 2008 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] dorkbot tomorrow In-Reply-To: <1221671472.13334.6.camel@phosphorus.austin.ibm.com> References: <1221671472.13334.6.camel@phosphorus.austin.ibm.com> Message-ID: <247f0320809180222y514a777aj665966c95f8e25d5@mail.gmail.com> volunteers from the crowd then draw sticks? i'm game, and i'm sure others will be! On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Nick Pietraniec wrote: > Hi All - > > The Hawgfly folks are without a target for tomorrow. If anyone has > anything exciting to act as a gore cannon target... Or something less > exciting like some big boxes or something, let us know > > http://www.hawgfly.com/gorecannon.html > > -Nick > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... > ........................................................................ > -- Luke Iseman 512.466.4055 lukeiseman.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20080918/b81b011a/attachment-0001.html From mlists at resistive.net Fri Sep 19 15:35:06 2008 From: mlists at resistive.net (Nick Pietraniec) Date: Fri Sep 19 15:35:01 2008 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Dorkbot 17 Pictures Message-ID: <1221852906.25725.21.camel@phosphorus.austin.ibm.com> Last night's event was great, thanks for coming everyone who made it If you have any pictures to share, let us know - Austin 360 posted a few http://www.austin360.com/alist/mediahub/media/slideshow/index.jsp?tId=119957 To the folks who volunteered to get shot with the gore cannon, you guys are awesome. I didn't see the guy in the 4th Austin 360 picture afterwards, but if you're out there, we owe you a dorkbot t-shirt -Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20080919/a3986018/attachment.html