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!)