[dorkbotpgh-announce] dorkbot pittsburgh 15: Thursday, 24 April

[jet]

dorkbot pittsburgh 15: Thursday, April 24 2008, 7:30-9:30pm

Join us for our *fifteenth* dorkbot pittsburgh, an evening of 
educational robot madness!


First, Administrivia
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A couple of people asked last month if they could do < 5 min
"open dork" presentations, but I lost the scrap of paper with
their email addresses.   Anyone interested in doing opendork style 
presentations, please show up around 7pm so we can sort out the details. 
   We have two speakers and we have to be completely cleaned up by 
9:30pm, so we might do opendorks starting at 7:20 or 7:25.

Also, if you plan on having dinner at brillobox, plan on showing up 
early -- you have to order and pick up your food downstairs, and it can 
sometimes take the kitchen 10-15 minutes to get your food ready.



This month's speakers
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Eric Schweikardt: Eric is a deliberate comprehensivist – his
background is in architecture and now he makes modular robotic stuff. 
He's convinced that playing with computational toys encourages kids to 
develop intuitions about complexity and become better designers. Eric 
will demonstrate roBlocks, a robotic construction kit made up of little 
magnetized cubes. He's currently a PhD candidate in Computational Design 
at Carnegie Mellon University.

Marek Michalowski: Marek is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at 
Carnegie Mellon University. He participates in the Social Robots 
Project, the Project on People and Robots, Humanoids at CMU, and RoboOrg 
(the RI student organization). Marek will discuss BeatBots, a project to 
develop rhythmically intelligent robots for research and entertainment.

dorkbot pittsburgh meets upstairs at Brillobox, the event is open to the 
general public, non-smoking, and admission is free. See Events for full 
details and directions.


See you there,

--jet

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--jet at allartburns.org