{"id":167,"date":"2009-05-17T01:21:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T05:21:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-02-02T00:37:04","modified_gmt":"2011-02-02T05:37:04","slug":"dorkbotlex-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=167","title":{"rendered":"DorkbotLex #3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3637\/3538107276_c7515214a2.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"3538107276_c7515214a2.jpg?v=0\"  title=\"3538107276_c7515214a2.jpg?v=0\"  class=\"center\"  \/><br \/>\nI made it to the third <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.dorkbot.org\/dorkbotlex\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dorkbot.org\/dorkbotlex\/\">Dorkbot event in Lexington<\/a> 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 <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/puredata.info\/\" href=\"http:\/\/puredata.info\/\">Pure Data<\/a>. The second presentation was of a solder-free LED hula-hoop by Lauren Sherrow (pictured above).  There was then a showing of Aaron Miller&#8217;s Day of Defeat-based machinima piece <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/1885985\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/file\/1885985\/\"><em>I, Bots<\/em><\/a>, 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 <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/collexion.net\/\" href=\"http:\/\/collexion.net\/\">Collexion<\/a> folks had been there to participate.<br \/>\nThe better of the pictures I took are up in a <a class=\"externlink\" title=\"Go to http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pappp\/sets\/72157618213526685\/\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pappp\/sets\/72157618213526685\/\">flickr set<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pappp.net\/?p=167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,1,12],"tags":[98,104],"class_list":["post-167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-diy","category-general","category-oldblog","tag-dorkbot","tag-dorkbotlex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pappp.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}