From nick at resistive.net Wed Mar 11 01:00:18 2009 From: nick at resistive.net (Nick Pietraniec) Date: Wed Mar 11 01:00:30 2009 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Reminder: Dorkbot next sat 3/14 Message-ID: Hey Everyone, Forwarding from the announce list in case you're not on it. If you're *not* on it, make sure to RSVP at the upcoming website. http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1904017 Hope to see you Saturday! -Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi Everyone - Just wanted to send out the updated list of presenters and a reminder about the event next Saturday March 14, 2009 6:00pm - 8:00pm Brush Square Park 5th and Neches Austin, Texas Sponsored by * SXSW Interactive * Silicon Labs - https://www.silabs.com/ * Mr. Data Consulting - http://www.mrdata.com/ * Monstrous - http://www.monstro.us/ * Make Magazine - http://www.makezine.com/ And supported by * BuildASign.com - http://buildasign.com/ * Mike Rigsby - http://www.misterengineer.com/ We've got a great set of presenters lined up * ArcAttack - Singing Tesla Coils - http://www.arcattack.com/ * Operation Playmate - Extra-planetary Erich Ragsdale vs. Eric Archer?s Big Box o? Techno - http://www.myspace.com/operationplaymate * Phil Macnutt - Homebuilt Analog Synthesizer - http://www.philmacnutt.com/siterrt/Analog_Modular.html * Bleep Labs - http://bleeplabs.com/ * Jason Asbahr / Monstro.us - Presents their latest release Entranced, a 3D interactive music experience game-as-art - http://www.monstro.us * Alison Lewis - Battery powered crafts to make and sew - http://iheartswitch.com/switchcraft * FIRST Robotics Anderson High School FIRST robot team #2158, and Girl Scouts of Central Texas FIRST robot team #2881 * George Sabra - Bringing his latest e-waste sculpture http://www.georgesabra.com * Marvin Niebuhr - Prickly Pear Cactus Rhythm Synth http://flimflamlab.blogspot.com * The Robot Group - A large selection of projects including the Babbling Head, Ping Pong Printer, Glamour Girl, and more - http://www.robotgroup.org/ * Aileen Adler - Theremin for the Masses - http://www.thereminforthemasses.com * Lori 16mm Varga - Lots of odd film/handpainted footage and circuit bent sounds * Jay Smith / Livid - Viditar MIDI controller - http://www.lividinstruments.com * Bob Comer - Robots used at and info about the Computer Studies and Robotics and Automation program at ACC * Bill Byrne / The Painful Leg Injuries - Software and hardware instruments by controlled by Nintendo Wii-mote http://myspace.com/painfulleginjuries * John P. Funk - New and working robot props from his movie production Check out the website for more info... http://www.dorkbotaustin.org/ We'd also like to mention some other events coming up that we're going to and thought our fellow dorkbot fans would be interested in Plutopia - http://plutopia.org/ The 9th Annual EFF-Austin SXSWi After Party An exciting convergence of technology, DIY, music, and art performance. Monday, March 16, 2009 6pm - midnight Palmer Events Center 900 Barton Springs Road, Austin, Texas 78704 DataPop - http://datapopparty.com/ A celebration of the Gameboy music movement Wednesday March 18, 9pm 1142 South Lamar Inside the old Salvation Army by the Alamo Drafthouse See you on Saturday! -Nick ........................................................................ .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... ......................... http://dorkbot.org ........................... ........................................................................ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20090311/7862f744/attachment.html From nick at resistive.net Fri Mar 13 16:14:11 2009 From: nick at resistive.net (Nick Pietraniec) Date: Fri Mar 13 16:14:23 2009 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] dorkbot tomorrow Message-ID: <1236975251.7562.16.camel@localhost> Anyone out there interested in helping out tomorrow? We need help at the fence with guestlists and probably setting up tables and stuff... You won't have to do anything like stand at the door for the whole 2 hours, I promise. Don't want to jinx it but the weather actually looks like it's going to cooperate. Let me know -Nick -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotaustin-blabber/attachments/20090313/6edbf3fc/attachment.html From jluciani at gmail.com Sat Mar 14 08:06:17 2009 From: jluciani at gmail.com (John Luciani) Date: Sat Mar 14 08:06:26 2009 Subject: [dorkbotaustin-blabber] Happy PI-day Message-ID: <608bfe540903140506o73de67fat3ab111fd21c5e754@mail.gmail.com> Have a happy and safe PI-Day. (* jcl *) P.S. There is a free PI poster on my website (www.luciani.org) to enjoy during your PI-Day festivities. -- You can't create open hardware with closed EDA tools. http://www.wiblocks.com http://www.luciani.org