From info at mztek.org Fri Jul 3 07:57:40 2009 From: info at mztek.org (info@mztek.org) Date: Fri Jul 3 07:57:58 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Sinful Machines July Workshop Message-ID: <65068.213.131.163.115.1246622260.squirrel@www.mztek.org> MzTEK presents: Sinful Machines A Workshop by Seaweed Studio Beginner - Intermediate Workshop. All ages & gender welcome. http://mzktek.org/sinful-machines Sinful machines is a workshop which is part of a project exploring the delicate relationship between man, machines and sins. How is a sin defined? In the original sense of the word, to sin means to ?err? or miss the mark, but modern definitions associate it with violations of a morality. What happens when 7 deadly sins and social sins manifest themselves within machines? Through the course of the workshop, we'll take you from design to creation of your own interactive sinful machine, using Arduino and components such as sensors, lights, motors, MP3 players, and more. Stuck for ideas? We'll have examples on hand to inspire you. Perfect for complete beginners and those with intermediate knowledge Arduino skills, we welcome people of all age and gender. For those who are stuck for ideas, we will also prepare a few examples to show on the day to inspire and help you through your project concept. If you have any concerns about your ability to attend as you have children and need someone to mind them, don?t hesitate to speak to us about child-minding possibilities. ?65 includes lunch both days. ?45 special rate registration before June 12. Space is limited, so RSVP soon: info@mztek.org. Arduino beginner kits can be found at Oomlout.com. If you have any difficulty obtaining kit, we will have plenty to lend at the workshop. Just let us know, beforehand. Email the instructors at Seaweed Studio: info@seaweedstudio.co.uk Email us at info@mztek.org // http://www.mztek.org Supported by [ SPACE ] 129-131 Mare Street, Hackney, London E8 3RH From darrell at ku24.com Tue Jul 7 16:00:58 2009 From: darrell at ku24.com (Darrell Berry) Date: Tue Jul 7 16:01:31 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Re: Nike Chalkbot v. StreetWriter Message-ID: <8B9CE5F4-58A9-4465-9A15-22ED63D11DFF@ku24.com> Very timely to see this press release -- i've just been exchanging emails with Nathan at DeepLocal (Chalkbot's builders) regarding these exact issues. When I saw someone on Twitter mention chalkbot as a 'cool new thing' (my paraphrase), my initial response was WTF that's an IAA project! So I sent out a call on Twitter for further info, leading to Nathan's contacting me a couple of hours back and sending me a link to this page on their site: http://tinyurl.com/l73mvd which details the history of Chalkbot from their perspective. I don't have his permission to share the contents of our subsequent email exchange (nor have I asked for it), so let's leave that to one side. Regards D ps I'm copy ingthe London Dorks on this -- I'm sure some of them will find this interesting! On 7 Jul 2009, at 18:50, appliedautonomy@stallman.mayfirst.org wrote: > FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE > JULY 7TH, 2009 > > Nike Chalkbot Rips-off Streetwriter > > This week Nike unveiled a cool "new" chalk-writing robot used to > print messages on the road during the Tour de France bicycle race. > The trouble is, the robot isn't so new after all. The Nike Chalkbot > is nearly identical to the "Streetwriter" we began developing ten > years ago. > > Since 1998, the Institute for Applied Autonomy has been inventing and > building robots to protest the militarization of robotics research > and to reassert the public's ownership of public space. Among the > machines we produced were GraffitiWriter, a small remote controlled > robot capable of printing high-speed text graffiti on the pavement > while driving, StreetWriter, a black cargo van capable of printing > large text messages the width of a traffic lane while driving, and > SWX a more compact trailer version of the same. Largely without > permission, these robots were used to print politically controversial > messages in 6 countries and major cities across the US. In 2004 the > StreetWriter project was deployed as the SWX in protest against the > first DARPA Grand Challenge where its mission was to print Isaac > Asimov's First Rule of Robotics (i.e.: "A ROBOT MUST NOT KILL") at > the starting line of the military robotics event. > > In pointing out that the Nike Chalkbot is a higher-resolution/higher- > budget but otherwise obvious descendent of the StreetWriter (SWX), we > do not claim any sort of ownership over the project or the idea. We > have always been very open about the inner working of our machines, > publishing "how-to" plans and helping other artists and activists > build similar devices. While we have long expected our anti-corporate > project to one day be reappropriated as an advertising scheme, we are > surprised that in this case, the culprits are close associates. > According to sources close to the project, Chalkbot was built by an > early IAA member working under contract for Deeplocal, a startup > company founded by a onetime ?hacktivist?. Deeplocal in turn is under > contract with the Wieden+Kennedy PR agency, which was in turn hired > by Nike. The IAA was neither contacted nor consulted on the Chalkbot. > > Beyond wanting to reassure our friends that the IAA had nothing to do > with the Nike project, we issue this release because we are concerned > by the corporate appropriation of ?outsider? research projects > without acknowledgement of the amateur, collective, hobbyist, and > activist communities upon which projects like Chalkbot are built. > Young people witnessing the Chalkbot on television need to know this > was not handed down from a corporate research lab, but was made on > nights and weekends by the hard work of people not unlike themselves. > > We certainly understand our friends? decision to work for Nike -- we > all have bills to pay. It is unfortunate that as they enriched > themselves, they were unable to also enrich the communities that > nurtured their own development. We see this primarily as a failure > of imagination, which we understand is a common side effect of > working too closely with corporate sponsors. We helpfully suggest the > following remedial ?karma-cleansing? activities: > > 1. Publish their plans + code, in keeping with the open nature of the > project. > 2. Feature a historical accounting of the technical and ideological > origins of the robot prominently on their website and related > publications. > 3. Make the Chalkbot available for use by anti-corporate activists, > free of charge. > 4. Provide proportional financial support to new projects that share > the anti-authoritarian and anti-commercial aims from which this > project emerged. > > For more about the Institute for Applied Autonomy please visit: > www.appliedautonomy.com > > Click here to view the IAA's "Bridging The Gap" video: > http://www.appliedautonomy.com/video/BridgingTheGap_DSLM.mp4 > > > # distributed via : no commercial use without permission > # is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, > # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets > # more info: http://mail.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l > # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org > From aninfinitenumberofmonkeys at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 18:08:21 2009 From: aninfinitenumberofmonkeys at gmail.com (Henry Cooke) Date: Wed Jul 8 18:08:31 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Laser-cutting acrylic Message-ID: <63757ff00907081508u1debd26dl215011cd6a200f5a@mail.gmail.com> Does anyone know of anywhere I can get this done on a small scale in London? Just mucking about really, making a new lid for my laptop. h. From johannab at gmail.com Wed Jul 8 18:13:57 2009 From: johannab at gmail.com (Johanna Brewer) Date: Wed Jul 8 18:14:07 2009 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Laser-cutting acrylic In-Reply-To: <63757ff00907081508u1debd26dl215011cd6a200f5a@mail.gmail.com> References: <63757ff00907081508u1debd26dl215011cd6a200f5a@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: <3a207b100907081513y1452219du1c9f0273d6f3ade5@mail.gmail.com> Check out ponoko: http://www.ponoko.com/ (though not IN London it is ON the web ;] ). : johanna. On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 12:08 AM, Henry Cooke < aninfinitenumberofmonkeys@gmail.com> wrote: > Does anyone know of anywhere I can get this done on a small scale in > London? 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URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090709/350d1cbd/attachment.html From lists at lowfrequency.org Fri Jul 17 10:27:56 2009 From: lists at lowfrequency.org (evan.raskob [lists]) Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:27:56 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Openlab Workshops Message-ID: __ __ ____ ____ ___ ____ / /___ _/ /_ / __ \/ __ \/ _ \/ __ \/ / __ `/ __ \ / /_/ / /_/ / __/ / / / / /_/ / /_/ / \____/ .___/\___/_/ /_/_/\__,_/_.___/ /_/ __ __ _ ______ _____/ /_______/ /_ ____ ____ _____ | | /| / / __ \/ ___/ //_/ ___/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \/ ___/ | |/ |/ / /_/ / / / ,< (__ ) / / / /_/ / /_/ (__ ) |__/|__/\____/_/ /_/|_/____/_/ /_/\____/ .___/____/ /_/ url: http://www.pawfal.org/openlab/2009/07/17/openlab-summer- workshops-28-july-2009/ Facebook Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=98914935948 This summer, Openlab, the London-based open source art and technology collective, presents a series of in-depth summer workshops exploring creating and hacking media using free software and tools. Workshops will include both beginner and advanced instruction in such software as PureData, Processing, and SuperCollider, as well as using the microcontroller Arduino, general sound hardware hacking, and more. For less than the cost of the cinema, you can gain some valuable skills using free software! ~=~=~=~Workshop #2~=~=~=~ When: Tuesday 28 June, from 6pm-10:30pm Where: The Roebuck pub (upstairs room), 50 Great Dover Street, SE1 4YG Nearest transport: 35, 133, 343, 21 buses, Borough Tube (Northern line) About 8 minute walk from London Bridge Station (Northern and Jubilee tube, rail, and bus station: 48, 47, 149 buses) Map: Cost: ?15 for the entire night, or per workshop (see below). How to pay: At the door, or via Paypal to be guaranteed a space (limited to 30 people per workshop). Please email workshop at pixelism.info to reserve a space in any workshop. 1) Introduction to Arduino: Microcontrollers, LEDs, sensors, and you! with Daniel Hirschmann - ?10 A simple introduction to the Arduino as a platform for prototyping physical & digital interactive objects, installation, and things . We will cover the programming environment, some basic electronics, and learn how to make sensors do stuff to lights. Requirements: * A laptop computer with Arduino downloaded and installed. Go through the Getting Started guide on the website. * An Arduino Microcontroller platform. These can be bought from Tinker.it. If needed, a few will be on hand for use, or for sale. Please let us know by email (see above) whether you're interested in buying one on the day. Electronic Components: Breadboard, hook-up wire, switches, LEDs, Potentiometers, Infrared Rangers, Ultrasonic rangers, FSR's, other sensors... If you don't know what these are, DON'T worry! We'll have a few available to use during the intro. If you DO know what these are, and you have a them - bring them along and we can help you wire them up! 2) Processing for Visual Artists with Evan Raskob - ?10 Processing is fast becoming the tool of choice for interactive artists and designers looking to add some visual complexity and user interaction to their work, from music videos to interactive kiosks and print graphics. This 2-hour workshop is the second in a series of summer workshops, where we work on some language fundamentals and drawing images to the screen. There will be open workshop time for questions at the end. Some basic exposure to Processing is suggested. Please bring a laptop and download Processing prior to the workshop. Taught by lecturer and visual performance artist Evan Raskob. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090717/9e27ea20/attachment.html From alex at slab.org Tue Jul 21 18:52:50 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 23:52:50 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] burningdork, 21-24th August Message-ID: No regular dorkbotlondon in July, but there's a few tickets left for our annual dorkcamp in August, details here: http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp09 From tenyen at tenyen.net Wed Jul 22 18:27:36 2009 From: tenyen at tenyen.net (Ten Yen) Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 23:27:36 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Other events (HAR and burningdork sold out!). In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20090722222736.GA17822@tenyen.net> Heya, X alex [2009-07-21 21:17] : > No regular dorkbotlondon in July, but there's a few tickets left for > our annual dorkcamp in August, details here: > http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp09 now gone to a stand-by list: http://dorkcamp.eventwax.com/dorkcamp09 I was gutted to only find out about: http://plumbercon.org/ *after* having booked travel to HAR . . . so in trying to let other people know, I found out about this event on Thursday 23rd July: http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3066904?v=1&w=watch http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/cc2ca3e74609638a http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/ced7338174f2eabb http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/f468eb8312df0965 (the lack of sensible threading vs. traffic puts me off that list) heh, -- -- HpA, hPa, j0y, j0y ! tenyen at tenyen.net | ] -- web/ info/ gpg : http://tenyen.net/ _#_#_ ] . From a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk Thu Jul 23 08:57:35 2009 From: a.hadzi at gold.ac.uk (adnan hadzi) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:57:35 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Images of Ebb workshop at Deptford.TV Message-ID: <4A685E3F.10205@gold.ac.uk> dear all, Images of Ebb workshop w/ Rob Canning (GOTO10.org) + Adnan Hadzi (bitnik.org) - database film making at Deptford.TV date: August 1st (Sat), 1pm-5pm location: http://dek.spc.org, To reserve a place, please *RSVP* with your *phone number* at: a.hadzi (at) gold.ac.uk (limited space!) & find a description attached bellow. all the best, adnan The End of Something.. A collection of reflections on the Global Crisis 31 July - 30 August 2009 Volume: 114-116 Amersham Vale, Deptford Police Station, New Cross, London SE14 6LG Opening hours: 12-5pm (Fri-Sun) / http://theendofsomething.wordpress.com WORKSHOP 1 Images of Ebb workshop w/ Adnan Hadzi (Deptford TV) + Rob Canning (GOTO10) August 1st (Sat) @ Deskspace medialab, 1-5pm The Images of Ebb workshop will introduce participants to Sousveillance and CCTV filmmaking where material and images from the Deptford.TV archive will be edited to submissions from Sounds of Ebb. Footage taken from Deptford.TV was filmed during a previous TV hacking workshop where participants equipped with CCTV surveillance signal receivers were lead through the city by incoming surveillance camera signals. CCTV video signal receivers cached surveillance camera signals into public and private spaces and were made visible: surveillance became sousveillance. By making images visible which normally remain hidden, we gain access to the ?surveillance from above? enabling us to use these images to create personal narratives of the city. The Images of Ebb workshop will look at constructing a narrative to the Sounds of Ebb. Sound of Ebb (a branch project of The End of Something) is an open source sound series that asks sound artists and artists working with sound to respond to the question: What is the sound of Recession? Contributions are collected internationally reflecting the affects of crisis and recession from various social contexts and geographic locations. Together the Sounds of Ebb and images from Sousveillance produce articulations of a local city in crisis with global resonances of recession. Deptford.TV is a research project on collaborative film - initiated by Adnan Hadzi in collaboration with the Deckspace media lab, Bitnik media collective, Boundless project, Liquid Culture initiative, and Goldsmiths College. It is an online media database documenting the urban change of Deptford, in Sout East London. Deptford TV functions as an open, collaborative platform that allows artists, filmmakers and people living and working around Deptford to store, share, re-edit and redistribute the documentation of Deptford. http://deptford.tv GOTO10 is a collective of international artists and programmers, dedicated to Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and digital arts. GOTO10 aims to support and grow digital art projects and tools for artistic creation, located on the blurry line between software programming and art. http://goto10.org To reserve a place, please RSVP with phone number to: a.hadzi(a)gold.ac.uk (limited space!) -- The End of Something is a critical archival project that aims create a platform for reflection on the global crisis. During August 2009, LOUDSPKR in collaboration with Volume will embark on an on-going process of accumulation to build up an archive of personal, critical and creative reflections from a local and international community. Located in the former ?Archive Room? of a police station, Volume will become once again a bureau and repository for information. The archive exists both online in a 'digital archive' and in a physical archive at Volume. As a provisional space, the archive is perpetually incomplete and flawed. It, however, offers a space for dialogue and critical reflection on notions of crises that demand urgency as it increasingly seeps into our everyday. Through events, workshops and talks, the public will be engaged in processes of creating and imagining new narratives and understandings of a rather complex time. Have something to contribute? Please get in touch: teos.project at gmail.com Launch Event ? July 31st (Fri) @ Volume, 7pm-11pm Screening: Big Willow Eco Camp in Crystal Palace south London by Stefan Szczelkun and Thomas Zagrosek (8pm) Stuff.Swap ? on-going throughout the month @ Volume: Bring your stuff to swap! Bring objects, clothes, toys and things to exchange with another for Free! www.loudspkr.org | www.volumeprojects.com From douglas at music.columbia.edu Thu Jul 23 09:20:53 2009 From: douglas at music.columbia.edu (douglas repetto) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:20:53 -0400 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] [Fwd: Call for help from a British TV producer] Message-ID: <4A6863B5.80909@music.columbia.edu> -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Call for help from a British TV producer Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:25:54 +0100 From: Nick Lockey To: Hi! Just wondering if you might be able to point me in the right direction with some research I?m doing? I?m a Producer for one of the UK?s leading TV production companies and I?m currently developing a format that sets out to get kids using power tools and maker skills to create big, ambitious, fun engineering projects (go karts, treehouses, hovercrafts, etc), building self confidence and learning to manage risk in the process. We?re looking for an organisation or scheme to partner with that already runs summer camp type events that teach kids construction and engineering skills (can be based in the UK, the US or indeed anywhere!). Do you know anyone we could approach? Ideally we?d love to find a project that takes a very similar approach to Gever Tulley's fantastic 'Tinkering School' (http://www.tinkeringschool.com/blog/2005/about/ (we?re in contact with Gever but looking for other examples too). Any help or advice that you could provide would be much appreciated! Best wishes, Nick *Nick Lockey* *Producer - New Media* Maverick Television Progress Works, Heath Mill Lane, Birmingham, B9 4AL Tel; 0121 224 8421 Fax: 0121 771 1550 www.mavericktv.co.uk MavTV The content of this message is confidential and is intended for the addressee only, it may also be legally privileged. If you are not the addressee of this message, do not read, copy, distribute or use it in anyway. Please notify the sender immediately and delete the message totally from your system. E-mail transmission is not infallible and may be intercepted, arrive late and could contain errors and viruses. Maverick Television Limited and its associated companies can not accept responsibility for any problems that may result from this e-mail message. Visit Our Website : www.mavericktv.co.uk -- ............................................... http://artbots.org .....douglas.....irving........................ http://dorkbot.org .......................... http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/music-dsp .......... repetto............. http://music.columbia.edu/organism ........................................ http://douglasrepetto.org From paulm at paulm.com Thu Jul 23 14:46:46 2009 From: paulm at paulm.com (Paul Makepeace) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:46:46 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Other events (HAR and burningdork sold out!). In-Reply-To: <20090722222736.GA17822@tenyen.net> References: <20090722222736.GA17822@tenyen.net> Message-ID: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Ten Yen wrote: > Heya, > > X alex [2009-07-21 21:17] : >> No regular dorkbotlondon in July, but there's a few tickets left for >> our annual dorkcamp in August, details here: >> ? http://dorkbotlondon.org/wiki/index.php/DorkCamp09 > > now gone to a stand-by list: > http://dorkcamp.eventwax.com/dorkcamp09 > > I was gutted to only find out about: > > http://plumbercon.org/ Oh wow, this looks good - anyone else up for it? I may be able to score some accommodation there. P > > *after* having booked travel to HAR . . . so in trying > to let other people know, I found out about this event > on Thursday 23rd July: > > http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/3066904?v=1&w=watch > > http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/cc2ca3e74609638a > http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/ced7338174f2eabb > http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space/browse_thread/thread/f468eb8312df0965 > > (the lack of sensible threading vs. traffic puts me off that list) > > heh, > > -- > -- ?HpA, hPa, j0y, j0y ?! ?tenyen at tenyen.net ? ? | ? ] > -- ? ?web/ info/ gpg ? ?: ?http://tenyen.net/ ?_#_#_ ] . > > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ > From alex at slab.org Sat Jul 25 05:38:32 2009 From: alex at slab.org (alex) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2009 10:38:32 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] pubcode2 - livecoded music + vjs, London, Wednesday 5th August Message-ID: ++ PUBCODE2 ++ Part two in the first series of livecoded music events in London. http://toplap.org/uk/ Live coding is a new direction in electronic music and video, and is starting to get somewhere interesting. Live coders expose and rewire the innards of software while it generates improvised music and/or visuals. All code manipulation is projected for your pleasure. When: 7pm - 11pm, Wednesday 5th August 2009 http://toplap.org/uk/event/pubcode2/ Featuring: chr15m (making machines that make machines that make music) MCLD (beatboxing + livecoding, is it possible?) Yee-King + Click Nilson (algorithmic choreography) openSlub (crowdsourced livecoding) Place: The Roebuck 50 Great Dover Street London SE1 4YG Map: http://is.gd/CL5G Door tax: Free Tube: Borough (5 mins walk) London Bridge (9 mins walk) More info: http://toplap.org/uk/ TOPLAP UK gratefully acknowledges financial support from the PRS Foundation. From alex at zivanovic.co.uk Thu Jul 30 04:51:01 2009 From: alex at zivanovic.co.uk (Alex Zivanovic) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 09:51:01 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Dorkbot's James Larsson on BBC News Message-ID: <4A715EF5.8060407@zivanovic.co.uk> I just saw this article on the BBC website about our dorkbot regular: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8172994.stm Alex From jagernot at gmail.com Thu Jul 30 05:32:27 2009 From: jagernot at gmail.com (S Jagannathan) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 10:32:27 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] Dorkbot's James Larsson on BBC News In-Reply-To: <4A715EF5.8060407@zivanovic.co.uk> References: <4A715EF5.8060407@zivanovic.co.uk> Message-ID: lovely! congrats james! --j From dowdinsk at gotadsl.co.uk Thu Jul 30 13:10:13 2009 From: dowdinsk at gotadsl.co.uk (Steve) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:10:13 +0100 Subject: [dorkbotlondon-blabber] RC Helicopter and skilled pilot sought for stunt in Isle of Wight Message-ID: <6A9837F2-DC56-4271-BF03-54864695059B@gotadsl.co.uk> Anybody? An Innovative Solution After the sucess of operation supplyline (see below), we need to think outside the box a little more. If anyone happens to own a remote controlled helicopter that they are willing to lend, email ellielaw [at] hotmail [dot] com. from savevestas blog: http://savevestas.wordpress.com/2009/07/30/an-innovative-solution/ cheers, ... -.. Steve Dowding IT Services http://sdit.org.uk -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotlondon-blabber/attachments/20090730/91a232e3/attachment.html