[dorkbotnyc-announce] The 5, 16 or 600, 8, 24 or 120th dorkbot-nyc meeting!

[douglas repetto]

dorkbot-nyc
Wednesday, Oct 3rd, 2007, 7-9pm
Location One: 26 Greene St (Canal/Grand)
$$$FREE$$$


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The 5, 16 or 600, 8, 24 or 120th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place 7pm
on Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to
share. And wear something you made!


Featuring the convex and polytopic:

     	
     John Huntington: The Gravesend Inn--An Interactive Haunted Hotel
     City Tech's Gravesend Inn is a high-tech, audience-driven haunted
attraction. 2007 marks the show's eight annual edition. The show control
system Medialon Manager gives control over the entire attraction to the
audience, which (unknowingly) triggers the effects as they move through
the maze. A variety of industrial sensors are currently used to sense
the position and location of audience members, and an infrastructure has
been created for more sophisticated sensing in the future. John, author
of the just released third edition of the book Control Systems for Live
Entertainment, will describe and demonstrate the show control systems he
designed for this attraction.
     http://www.gravesendinn.org
     	
     Spencer Russell: SensorBib
     Spencer will be presenting his most recent project, the SensorBib.
SensorBib is a set of capacitive distance sensors embedded in a fabric
covering for an upright bass. A chopped-up Arduino board sends the data
to a laptop running PD which uses the player's body position to process
the bass sound in real time. The sensors themselves (called "MouseTrap")
are of Spencer's own design, and all the schematics and PCB layout files
are available on his website.
     http://www.columbia.edu/~sfr2105
     	
     Eric Singer: robots on fire
     Eric Singer is a musician, artist, engineer and programmer and the
Founder and Director of LEMUR: League of Electronic Musical Urban
Robots, a group of artists and technologists who create robotic musical
instruments and installations. Eric will talk about robots, fire and
anything else that's on his mind.
     http://lemurbots.org