[dorkbotphiladelphia-announce] [ dorkbot-nyc meeting!]

[Chris Vecchio, PhD]

I don't like to cross post, but as long as the Philadelphia chapter is 
yet-unborn,
I figure I should mention that the NYC Dorkbot meeting season has begun 
again.
Very interesting stuff on the first Wednesday of every month at Location 
One Gallery in SoHo.

It's a good excuse for a trip to New York and, hey, thanks to the
Chinatown bus, that'll only set you back $10!

- Chris
www.noisemantra.com

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



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


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Chris Vecchio
804 S. 12^th Street
Philadelphia, PA  19147

www.noisemantra.com <http://www.noisemantra.com/>

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