dorkbot-austin

Thurs. Oct 15th 2009 7:30-9:00pm

Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35) (512) 236-8634 FREE EVENT

Still in the planning stages, but we’ve set the date!

If you have a project or something you’d like to present, let us know!

Current Presenters:

Alan Watts presents his new animation app Toon Fu
Mikal Hart shows off his GPS Box
Andre Lamothe demos the new chameleons
Dr. Bleep, Dann Green, and Eric Archer annouce the Handmade Music Austin workshop series, and demo their new Andromeda Space Rockers mini-instruments
John Boiles shows off his ipod contolled devices (1, 2)
Brooks Coleman
Marvin Niebuhr

Dorkbot-austin is a regular meeting of artists (sound / image / movement / whatever), hackers, designers, engineers, students and other interested parties who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest  sense of the term).

Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event.

Dorkbot Austin would like to welcome two new volunteers to the group — Laura Smith and Robert Ferguson.

Laura is a web designer in the Faculty Innovation Center at UT’s Cockrell School of Engineering. She’ll be helping to coordinate our upcoming events, so feel free to contact her if you’d like to speak at our next event or to help out in some way. dorkbotaustin [@] dorkbot [.] org.

Robert is an interactive designer at Austin Community College and will be helping with website updates.  Contact Robert if you have a Dorkbot Austin-related announcement you’d like to add to this site. dorkbotaustin [@] dorkbot [.] org.

If you are interested in volunteering for Dorkbot Austin, please contact us. We can always use extra folks for setup or teardown at our events. Or if ‘you know a guy who knows a guy who has a friend’ who might like to present at our next event, just let us know. dorkbotaustin [@] dorkbot [.] org.

Saturday March 14, 2009 from 6:00pm - 8:00pm Brush Square Park 5th and Neches Austin, Texas Get Directions

RSVP BEFORE FRIDAY MAR 13, 11:59PM 

RSVP (Option 1):  Join the dorkbot-austin announce list (all dorkbot-austin announcelist members have automatic RSVP+1) 

RSVP (Option 2):  http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1904017

Co-sponsored by:

• SXSW Interactive
• Silicon Labs
• Mr. Data Consulting
• Monstrous
• Make Magazine

Signs provided by BuildASign.com Giveaways from Mike Rigsby, author of Pointless (yet awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined

Current presenters include:

• ArcAttack - Singing Tesla Coils - http://www.arcattack.com/
• Operation Playmate - Extra-planetary Erich Ragsdale vs. Eric Archer’s Big Box o’ Techno - http://www.myspace.com/operationplaymate
• Phil Macnutt - Homebuilt Analog Synthesizer - http://www.philmacnutt.com/siterrt/Analog_Modular.html
• Bleep Labs - http://bleeplabs.com/
• Jason Asbahr / Monstro.us - Presents their latest release Entranced, a 3D interactive music experience game-as-art - http://www.monstro.us
• Alison Lewis - Battery powered crafts to make and sew - http://iheartswitch.com/switchcraft
• FIRST Robotics Anderson High School FIRST robot team #2158, and Girl Scouts of Central Texas FIRST robot team #2881
• George Sabra - Bringing his latest e-waste sculpture http://www.georgesabra.com
• Marvin Niebuhr - Prickly Pear Cactus Rhythm Synth http://flimflamlab.blogspot.com
• The Robot Group - A large selection of projects including the Babbling Head, Ping Pong Printer, Glamour Girl, and more - http://www.robotgroup.org/
• Aileen Adler - Theremin for the Masses - http://www.thereminforthemasses.com
• Lori 16mm Varga - Lots of odd film/handpainted footage and circuit bent sounds
• Jay Smith / Livid - Viditar MIDI controller - http://www.lividinstruments.com
• Bob Comer - Robots used at and info about the Computer Studies and Robotics and Automation program at ACC
• Bill Byrne / The Painful Leg Injuries -  Software and hardware instruments by controlled by Nintendo Wii-mote http://myspace.com/painfulleginjuries
• John P. Funk - multi disciplinary artist, Inventor & creator of LED Space Lights http://www.cozmicfunk.com

dorkbot-austin @ UT’s ACTLab

Wed. Feb 11th 2008 7:00-10:00pm

In this building on the 4th floor studio 4B aka the ACTLab.

Parking map

There are also major bus routes right in front of the building and a bike rack right underneath. Parking at any gray city meter is free after 5:45pm

dorkbot-austin @ UT’s ACTLab

Wed. Nov 12th 2008 6:30-9:00pm (Presentations @ 7:00)

In this building on the 4th floor studio 4B aka the ACTLab.

Parking map There are also major bus routes right in front of the building and a bike rack right underneath.  Parking at any gray city meter is free after 5:45pm

Presentations:

• ACTLab Intro:  A little back story and introduction of people working with the ACTLab - UT’s new media initiative
• Sandy Stone - Sandy’s Fan Club:  A look into micro controllers and more
• Cecy Correa - Presenting a preview of a documentary she is working on about the actlab.
• Joey Lopez - Studying Car Culture in Central Texas, learning to hack in the backyard.
• Other cool stuff from the ACTLab - steam punk projects, circuit bending and more!

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Thursday, September 18, 7PM Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35) (512) 236-8634

Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event.

http://www.dorkbotaustin.org

• Meredith Johns and Carolyn O’Hara from Hawgfly show off their gore cannon http://www.hawgfly.com/gorecannon.html
• Edwin Wise is back with a preview of the Abyssal Organ tech he’ll be setting up at Maker Faire and using in the Scare for a Cure haunt.
• Music showcasing the big box-o-techno http://ericarcher.net/devices/big-box-o-techno/ by Operation Playmate - Erich Ragsdale, Eric Archer, and Chad A
• Nick Pietraniec brings a work-in-progress guitar hero-bot.

Last minute event planned for next Thursday 8pm at Cafe Mundi.  Confirmed projects:

• Adam Iseman: ard-e, his sub-$100 robotics platform ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Ard-e-The-robot-with-an-Arduino-as-a-brain/)

• Jason Delaney: steampunk (literally) in a homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc.

Just an update on the lineup for next thursday’s (June 19th) dorkbot.  Hope to see you there!

• DIY Modular Battery Backup system (Uniterruptible Power Supply) for powering computer systems or other electronics or electrical equipment that needs to have a reliable battery backup in the event of a grid power failure - Chase Hammock
• How To End Bike Theft: The Honeybike Project – protect your bike or other vehicle with a high voltage alarm system - Luke Iseman
• Hacking $5 analog gauges -  Jason Pepas
• Tesla coil kits - Edwin Wise
• Balloon Lights Project - A combined work of Gray Mack for electronics and programming and Dave McGriffy for balloon/helium research
• Ambient Electronic Music - John P. Funk
• ArcAttack! will be making an appearance with their singing tesla coils
• Open Dork - bring your unfinished projects for showing off/brainstorming

Hello Dorkbot Austin! We are once again doing strange things with electricity!

Our next dorkbot is scheduled for June 19th, 2008 at Café Mundi @ 7pm

Currently we have 4 presentations, but we need 1 or 2 more to fill the boot. If you have a new project you are working on, we would love to see it and give you the chance to be the center of attention while you explain how it works. We should have a projector for you to use so you can show any video or powerpoint presentations that would go along with your project. If you would like to be a presenter, drop us an email at dorkbotaustin@dorkbot.org  If you need help setting up or unloading/loading your stuff please speak up and we will be glad to help you get it done.

The presentations we have listed so far are:

• Luke Iseman’s DIY Bike Alarm Project How To End Bike Theft: The Honeybike Project – protect your bike or other vehicle with a high voltage alarm system that can’t be beat!
• DIY Modular Battery Backup system (Uniterruptible Power Supply) for powering computer systems or other electronics or electrical equipment that needs to have a reliable battery backup in the event of a grid power failure
• Jason Pepas on Hacking $5 analog gauges -  more info on his wiki http://jason.pepas.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page 
• Edwin Wise’s dual-resonant solid-state tesla coil “minibrute” - According to Edwin “I’m getting two-foot sparks on this thing before I blow the fuse on my variac, so that’s kinda cool.” more info at http://easternvoltageresearch.com/index.htm 
• (INSERT YOUR PRESENTATION HERE – YES THIS COULD BE YOU!)