[dorkbotsea-announce] NOVEMBER1st Dorkbot: The View from Up There

[shelly at hive-mind.com]

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*November 1st** 2006 DORKBOT:   The View From Up There*


*IMPORTANT: please note that we're not using our usual venue - details
below: IMPORTANT*


Greetings, Dorks! On WEDNESDAY, November 1st at 7:30 PM at the Capitol Hill
Arts Center, we will have three presentations about taking photos and video
from where you are not.  *Bre Pettis* will share his kite aerial photography
rigs and give us hints on how to avoid knocking someone's head off with a
pound and a half of payload attached to a long string.  *Peter Brown* will
show us the Assimilator Project; a way to enable people to have a
first-person perspective of being 500 feet in the air using simple off the
shelf wireless video equipment, LCD video goggles, lots of string and a
large helium balloon.  *Brad Larsen* and *Ryan Weh* will tell us about their
radio-controlled blimp-mounted camera, and then demonstrate it in action.



 Doors will be open at 7:00 if you want to show up early, have a drink at
CHAC's bar, and chat with your fellow dorks.
 Presenter and venue details below; http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea has full
information about the talks.   Please send any questions or comments to
Eldan ( eldang at gmail.com ) who's organizing this Dorkbot, or
shellyhivemind at gmail.com, your Dork Overlord.


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Presenters:


*Bre Pettis* makes things and then makes videos of them for MAKE: Magazine.


*Peter Brown* is a software entrepreneur working on web technologies in
Seattle.  This is his first "art" project.


*Ryan Weh* is a student in Physics at the UW.  He has a personal website,
http://www.quixotism.org , and hosts a forum for Bill Beaty's Amasci website
at

http://www.theidea.bz/forums/wsci/ .

*Brad Larsen* is an industrial designer and an inventor with his name on
various patents.  He currently develops toy airplanes, new pepper grinders
and other inventions.


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WHAT:             November 1st 2006 Dorkbot:  The View From Up There


WHEN:             7:30 PM (7:00 for a bit of socializing!)


WHERE:          The Capitol Hill Arts Center, Lower Level, 1621 12th Avenue,
Seattle 98122


ADMISSION:        FREE, ALL AGES AND SPECIES, but support CHAC (and
encourage them to have us back) by buying drinks at their lovely bar!


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If you'd like to speak or perform at, or curate, a future dorkbot, just let
me know via shellyhivemind at gmail.com .


Don't hesitate to get in touch by email if you have any comments or
questions beforehand.   http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea has more details.


Looking forward to seeing you all on the 1st!  Special thanks to CHAC for
stepping up at short notice and providing a venue.


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