From rich at spambutcher.com Fri Feb 8 05:21:47 2008 From: rich at spambutcher.com (rich@spambutcher.com) Date: Fri Feb 8 05:21:53 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Combat Robots this Saturday in Monroe! Message-ID: <47AC2D3B.6030802@spambutcher.com> Come see Western Allied Robotics - http://westernalliedrobotics.com/ kick some major robot booty at the NW Model Hobby Expo 2008 - http://www.nwmodelhobbyexpo.com/index.html at the Evergreen State Fairgrounds in Monroe! Date: Saturday, Feburary 9th 2008 Location: Arena building, west end of the fairgrounds Event Time: 11:30noon - 6:00pm General Admission : $7 Saturday / $10 Two Day / $5 Sunday Kids under 10 are free with adult. Free Parking at the Event is located adjacent to the Arena building at the West End of the Fairgrounds and through the tunnel across 179th Ave SE. Directions to the Fairgrounds: http://www.nwmodelhobbyexpo.com/Directions.html There's tons of fun things to see an buy at the NW Model Hobby Expo, but WAR is sure to be the highlight Saturday afternoon. Don't miss it! And don't forget to bring a can or two of food to support the local food bank. -------------------- I'll be fighting my 3lbs 1-motor / 1-wheel translational drift robot: http://www.spambutcher.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080129-082440 http://www.spambutcher.com/blog/index.php?entry=entry080129-050630 -------------- next part -------------- _______________________________________________ War mailing list War@westernalliedrobotics.com http://mail.westernalliedrobotics.com/mailman/listinfo/war_westernalliedrobotics.com From eldan at eldan.co.uk Wed Feb 20 02:31:19 2008 From: eldan at eldan.co.uk (Eldan Goldenberg) Date: Wed Feb 20 02:31:59 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Manifold Motion presents Miscellanea Message-ID: <47731852-0F77-41FD-9178-91E7CEE86162@eldan.co.uk> Mike McCracken just tipped me off that his Audible Avatar (the sound installation from "Strange Things" - http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/events/pdstwe3/mikemccracken.html ) will be making an appearance at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center next weekend (Feb 29 - March 2). The whole show sounds interesting: http://www.manifoldmotion.com/upcoming.html Eldan From eldan at eldan.co.uk Thu Feb 21 02:12:41 2008 From: eldan at eldan.co.uk (Eldan Goldenberg) Date: Thu Feb 21 02:12:56 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] March Dorkbot: AudioDork Message-ID: Next month's Dorkbot will be all about music and sound art: ************************************************************************ WHAT: March 2008 Dorkbot: AudioDork WHEN: Weds, Mar 5th, 7 - 10:30pm (first speaker on at 7:30) WHERE: 911 Media, 402 9th Ave N. http://www.911media.org/ ADMISSION: FREE, ALL AGES AND SPECIES but bring a couple of bucks to support 911 Media! We'll have donation jar out by the beer. ;) We'll hear talks by Jim Owen, a composer of music for laptop and orchestra, Doug Haire, the curator of KEXP's Sonarchy experimental music show, and Mike McCracken, the creator of "Audible Avatar". I'll send out more information about the speakers next week. If you have announcements or a project for "openDork" either drop me an email ( eldang@gmail.com ) or let me know at the start of the evening. As ever, thanks to 911 Media Arts Center for providing such a great venue and friendly support for our events. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://music.columbia.edu/pipermail/dorkbotsea-blabber/attachments/20080220/5a66bf32/attachment.html From seanj at xyke.com Thu Feb 21 10:28:57 2008 From: seanj at xyke.com (Sean Jensen-Grey) Date: Thu Feb 21 10:17:01 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] announce: talk at uw **today** , Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing Message-ID: <20080221152856.GL43314@xyke.com> She shows how she has constructed PCBs out of fabric. Amazing stuff. Leah Buechley (University of Colorado, Boulder) Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:30 pm, EEB-105 Colloquium http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=697 http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/engineering/fabric_PCB.html This is in the EE building http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?EEB There should be a video of the talk posted afterwards, but it isn't guaranteed. Sean From seanj at xyke.com Thu Feb 21 11:46:32 2008 From: seanj at xyke.com (Sean Jensen-Grey) Date: Thu Feb 21 11:34:36 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] announce: talk at uw **today** , Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing In-Reply-To: <20080221152856.GL43314@xyke.com> References: <20080221152856.GL43314@xyke.com> Message-ID: <20080221164632.GO43314@xyke.com> I should have mentioned that the UW colloquia are open to everyone free of charge. There are often open talks given mathematics and physics, http://www.math.washington.edu/Seminars/semin_conf.php http://www.phys.washington.edu/colloquia.htm http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=colloquium+site%3Awashington.edu Sean On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:28:57AM -0800, Sean Jensen-Grey wrote: > > She shows how she has constructed PCBs out of fabric. Amazing stuff. > > Leah Buechley (University of Colorado, Boulder) > Computational Textiles and the Democratization of Ubiquitous Computing > Thursday, February 21, 2008 > 3:30 pm, EEB-105 > Colloquium > > http://www.cs.washington.edu/htbin-post/mvis/mvis?ID=697 > > http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~buechley/engineering/fabric_PCB.html > > This is in the EE building > > http://www.washington.edu/home/maps/southcentral.html?EEB > > There should be a video of the talk posted afterwards, but it isn't > guaranteed. > > Sean > ........................................................................ > .........dorkbot: people doing strange things with electricity.......... > ..........................http://dorkbot.org............................ > ........................................................................ From eldan at eldan.co.uk Fri Feb 29 02:31:23 2008 From: eldan at eldan.co.uk (Eldan Goldenberg) Date: Fri Feb 29 02:31:41 2008 Subject: [dorkbotsea-blabber] Web page up for next week's meeting Message-ID: <8C7F0382-EADC-4F0F-A459-D715730504FF@eldan.co.uk> It's at http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/dorkbotmtg45.shtml I think I'll send the reminder announcement out to Blabber on Sunday - Shelly could you forward it to announce please? Eldan