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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.

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.