It was, as always, a great show, with lots of inspiring local projects and an engaged audience. Hopefully sometime in the not TOO distant future I’ll actually get one of the hobby projects (the ones that are not so technical as to make non-engineers’ eye’s glaze over) done enough to show.
The usual, photos from the event are up on my flickr stream.
I made it to the third Dorkbot event in Lexington yesterday, and it was again a great show. This time there were four excellent presentations of the kind of artistically tenological projects dorkbot is meant to showcase. The first presentation was Clint Davis, showing a spatially aware music controller, built from an arduino, some infrared range finders, and Pure Data. The second presentation was of a solder-free LED hula-hoop by Lauren Sherrow (pictured above). There was then a showing of Aaron Miller’s Day of Defeat-based machinima piece I, Bots, about variously self-aware bots on a DoD public server. Finally, Jordan Munson showed off his work on a new generation of electronic music interfaces, including an OpenSoundControl controller on an iPod touch, and using a wiimote as a gestural interface. At the end there was a lot of discussion about organizing social/cultural events for geeks and hackers, I wish more of the Collexion folks had been there to participate.
The better of the pictures I took are up in a flickr set.
I did make it out to this month’s DorkbotLex, the few decent pictures I took are up in a set on flickr. I especially liked the Circuit Bent Toys presentation, it did an excellent job of making circuit modification accessible for those without any engineering background, although I always feel like there should be a little bit of effort to teach the underlying mechanisms when doing that sort of thing.
Some of the equipment for Senom’s DNA extraction demo were lost in transit, so that presentation has been postponed until the next event.
A reminder in case anyone else missed the announcement when it went out, the next DorkbotLex is this coming Saturday (2009-04-18), again at CPR.
According to the announce email, the topics this time are:
– Circuit bent toys – by artist + UK School of Fine Arts new media professor Dima Strakovsky
– Phonograffiti – by Lexington based sound/visual artist Jason Corder aka OfftheSky
– Hacked electronics – by Lexington based sound artist Grynden
– Garage science – a mini workshop for everyone that [Senom Yalcin] will lead: DNA extraction using simple materials
It sounds like another good showing, I hope to have time to be there, and encourage everyone interested to come out.
I went to dorkbotlex last Saturday (pi day!) and just got around to flickring the (few) pictures I took. Flickr set here. There are also some videos on their tumblr page.
As always, it makes me really happy to see signs of geek culture in Lexington.
