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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on"><SPAN class=328372506-19042007><SPAN class=936172700-24042007><FONT
color=#0000ff><FONT color=#000000><STRONG>Tomorrow!</STRONG></FONT>
</FONT></SPAN>Tuesday April 24th: </SPAN>Tacoma</st1:City></st1:place>
dorkbot #<SPAN class=328372506-19042007>3</SPAN> at Club
SOTA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">(see directions
below)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">LOCATION: 1117 Broadway, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:City></st1:place> (be sure to look for
the door at this address marked "Club SOTA")<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">TIME: 7:00 PM<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">DATE: Tuesday, <SPAN
class=328372506-19042007>April 24th</SPAN>, 2007<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">ADMISSION: Free and open to
all<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">dorkbot<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">"people doing strange things with
electricity"<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The <SPAN
class=328372506-19042007>third</SPAN> <st1:City w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:City>
dorkbot meeting will be<SPAN class=936172700-24042007><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#000000> tomorrow,</FONT> </FONT></SPAN>Tuesday, <SPAN
class=328372506-19042007>April 24 </SPAN>at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Tacoma</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> of the Arts' club
SOTA<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The presenters for the evening
are<SPAN class=936172700-24042007><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT
color=#000000> <STRONG>Ryan Weh</STRONG>, <STRONG>Brad Larsen</STRONG>,
and <STRONG>Doug Bell</STRONG>.</FONT> </FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><FONT face=Arial
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><FONT face=Arial
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><STRONG>Ryan Weh and Brad
Larsen</STRONG>: Radio-Controlled Blimp-Mounted <SPAN
class=328372506-19042007>Camera</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=328372506-19042007></SPAN><SPAN class=328372506-19042007>Brad </SPAN>and
Ryan have been interested in radio control flying toys for a very long time.
They'd always enjoyed the thought of getting aerial videos from a radio control
airplane, and only fairly recently come up with a working setup that satisfies
their basic objectives, even though they have been slowly working on the problem
of sending up a wireless camera from an airship for some time. In fact, the
camera part turned out to be easy and relatively cheap, but the biggest holdup
was in finding a way to view or record the video from the ground (or both), on
the field with minimal backup power. At the meeting they'll talk about the
issues that they came across when trying the various camera systems, and how
they converged onto the solution that they are using now. They will also cover
some other issues with using the camera itself, such as some basic vibration
damping advice<SPAN class=328372506-19042007>.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=328372506-19042007></SPAN></SPAN> </P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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<SPAN
class=328372506-19042007>.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
class=328372506-19042007></SPAN>Ryan Weh is a student in Physics at the UW. He
has a personal website, and hosts a forum for Bill Beaty's Amasci website.
(...with links)</P></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2><SPAN class=936172700-24042007><FONT
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT size=2><STRONG>Doug Bell</STRONG> has a
bachelor's degree in electrical engineering, and works as
a software engineer. He is a member of the Seattle Robotics Society
(</FONT><A title=http://www.seattlerobotics.org/
href="http://www.seattlerobotics.org/"><FONT
size=2>seattlerobotics.org</FONT></A><FONT size=2>), North Seattle Robotics
Group, SMART (Seattle Mindstorms And Robotic Techies) (</FONT><A
title=http://www.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/
href="http://www.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/"><FONT
size=2>www.lugnet.com/org/us/smart/</FONT></A><FONT size=2>), Puget Amateur
Radio Society (</FONT><A title=http://www.qsl.net/k7par/
href="http://www.qsl.net/k7par/"><FONT size=2>www.qsl.net/k7par/</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>), Weird Science Salon (</FONT><A title=http://amasci.com/wsci/
href="http://amasci.com/wsci/"><FONT size=2>amasci.com/wsci/</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>), dorkbot Seattle (</FONT><A title=http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea
href="http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea"><FONT
size=2>dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea</FONT></A><FONT size=2>), and is a mentor for
FIRST Team 488 XBOT (</FONT><A title=http://www.usfirst.org/
href="http://www.usfirst.org/"><FONT size=2>www.usfirst.org</FONT></A><FONT
size=2>)<SPAN class=328372506-19042007>.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><FONT
size=2><SPAN class=328372506-19042007>F</SPAN>rom 1989 to 1991, Doug was a
developer for Microsoft Excel 3, Microsoft's spreadsheet
program. He uses Excel as an engineering and art design and
simulation tool, and would like to show us a bit about how he does it, by
using the X/Y (Scatter) Chart mode for general purpose drawing,
driven by spreadsheets.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"></SPAN> </P>
<P><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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. </SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">--- Special thanks to SOTA for
making Club SOTA available to dorkbot ---<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">For more information please visit
http://dorkbot.org and http://dorkbot.org/dorkbottac<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We look forward to seeing you
there!<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p> </o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">***** Directions to Club SOTA:
*****<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">From I-5 take the I-705 N
exit<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">On 705 follow the signs to
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">City</st1:PlaceType>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Center</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> and then to
<st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A
Street</st1:address></st1:Street><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">The <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A Street</st1:address></st1:Street> exit dumps
you right onto <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A
Street</st1:address></st1:Street>.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Follow <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">A Street</st1:address></st1:Street> for about 2
blocks then turn left onto 11<SUP>th</SUP><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Take 11<SUP>th</SUP> past Pacific
and Commerce to Broadway<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Turn left onto Broadway (you’ll go
around a little waterfall/fountain)<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Club SOTA is on the left at 1117
Broadway<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P></DIV></BODY></HTML>