[dorkbottac-announce] Tonight: Tacoma dorkbot #5 at Club SOTA - Robots and Interactive Circuits

[Joe Benner]

!!!! PLEASE FORWARD!!!!

 

It's Art! It's Technology! It's free! It's dorkbot!

 

Tonight: Tacoma dorkbot #5 at Club SOTA

(sorry sorry sorry for the short notice - dorkbottac is ON for tonight and
it looks to be a great meeting!)

 

LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (be sure to look for the door at this
address marked "Club SOTA")

TIME: 7:00 PM

DATE: Tuesday, July 17, 2007

ADMISSION: Free and open to all

(directions at the end of this email)

 

dorkbot

"people doing strange things with electricity"

 

The fifth Tacoma dorkbot meeting will be on Tuesday, July 17th at Tacoma
School of the Arts' Club SOTA

 

The presenters for June are Andrew Becherer and Laura MacCary:

 

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Andrew Becherer -

Undergraduate, Computing and Software Systems University of Washington,
Tacoma

 

Andrew will be discussing Behavior Based Robotics and the leJOS Development
Enviroment for Lego Mindstorms.

He will implement a few different line following algorithms or Braitenberg
Machines (machines that love or hate light based on simple rules). 

 

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Laura MacCary - 

Laura is a local electronics artist focusing on interactivity between people
and circuits. She'll show us some of her work and then give us a chance for
some hands-on experimentation of our own.

 

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There will also be an open dork after the presentations where anyone can
take the floor for about 10 minutes to show us what you're working on, make
announcements, look for collaborators, etc. 

 

--- Special thanks to SOTA for making Club SOTA available to dorkbot ---

 

For more information please visit http://dorkbot.org and
http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac

We look forward to seeing you there!

 

***** Directions to Club SOTA: *****

 

>From I-5 take the I-705 N exit

On 705 follow the signs to City Center and then to A Street

The A Street exit dumps you right onto A Street.

Follow A Street for about 2 blocks then turn left onto 11th

Take 11th past Pacific and Commerce to Broadway

Turn left onto Broadway (you'll go around a little waterfall/fountain)

Club SOTA is on the left at 1117 Broadway

 

 

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