Dorkbot PDX would like to welcome you to the latest installment of our semi-regular presentation series:
DorkbotPDX 0x07
(zero-based)
- When: Monday, December 5th, 2011 - 8pm
- Where: Backspace (map)
- Who: All ages -- open to the public
- Cost: Free!
What's happening? Three great and inspiring talks regarding art, electronics, computers, physics, and a hybridized mega monster of all things strangely technical. Did we mention 3D bluetooth kittens and RF aardvarks dancing to the synthesizer sounds of the microcontroller apocalypse? Ok, I made that up...or did I?
Art and Electronics: Arcing the Gap
Jesse Mejia
Jesse will present an overview of a few recently completed projects and a few works in progress. His talk emphasizes bridging the gap between artists and pseudo-engineers, and he challenges the community to come up with a proper term for this crossover behavior.
Jesse is an artist and AV nerd represented digitally at anestheticaudio.com.
Getting Started With RF
Ward Ramsdell
Slides can be found here:
/files/ward_ramsdell_0x07.pdf
Ward presents an overview of several affordable, contemporary wireless devices and demonstrates how they may be easily incorporated with today's microcontrollers. It's off-the-shelf RF demystified, and you too can go wireless with your projects!
Ward Ramsdell is a real engineer who helps takes real products to market.
SPROING!
Simran Gleason
SPROING! is a new web-based word game is like playing boggle in 3D, on platonic solids made of springs, with kittens (& aardvarks).
Simran will show off Sproing & its HTML5 implementation, show the design evolution of the game, and give you the math of spring physics simulations.
There will be a live multiplayer Sproing tournament during the talk, with chocolate at stake for the winner.
Simran Gleason is an artist and a nerd. Usually he makes noise, but sometimes likes to turn physics into games.
OpenDork
You!
An open-mic session for those looking to show off a project, ask a question, solicit help, or incite collaboration.