[dorkbotdc-announce] Next Dorkbot DC Meeting: 26 Feb 08, 7pm

[Dorkbot DC]

Next Meeting:
Tuesday 26 February 2008
7 PM - 9 PM (ET)

ALWAYS FREE!

Location:
Smith Hall of Art, Room 114
George Washington University
801 22nd St NW
Washington, DC 20037

Please forward to other interested parties!

More, including list subscription info, here:
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotdc/


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SCHEDULE FOR THIS MEETING:


KATIE BECHTOLD:   The MESSENGER Project

Katie, a spacecraft flight software developer and controller, will 
discuss MESSENGER, the first mission to visit Mercury in over 30 years. 
Now on its way to orbit Mercury starting in 2011, it flew close by the 
planet last month, offering some tantalizing images. Along with the 
scientific goals of the mission and an overview of the probe's onboard 
sensors, Katie will present a few of the engineering challenges in 
exploring the innermost planet of our solar system.


JUSTIN SABE:   MIDI Control — How to make expressive digital instruments

Justin broke all his toys as a kid and has spent the rest of his life 
putting them back together in new and interesting ways. He has toured 
playing keytar with the goth industrial rock band Ego Likeness taking 
him around the United States, Germany and to Shiney Z's, the finest 
fetish club in Luxembourg. He also plays accordion and has performed at 
the Kennedy Center in an all tuba christmas concert. Last year he got a 
Technician class amateur radio license but has yet to key up because he 
can just call his ham friends on a cell phone any time he wants. He 
produces a podcast of cats purring.

Justin uses low-cost components to create fun MIDI controllers. He'll 
have a show and tell and expand a bit about how to use MIDI for control 
and how to make expressive digital instruments.



ALBERTO GAITAN:   Remembrancer — (Part 2 of 2: The Software)

Alberto is a composer/programmer/artist who creates a wide range of new 
media work. His net-aware piece, Remembrancer, deals with 
transformation, memory, and the spacial, temporal and cultural resonance 
of events through automated robotic painters responding in real-time to 
RSS data flowing in over the Internet.

Alberto will be talking a bit about the applications he integrated to 
create Remembrancer including Max/MSP, Yahoo! Pipes, and RS485 commands.

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