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The bluebonnets have bloomed, the heat has arrived, soon the yellow buses will be garaged until fall. Come out and help us celebrate the end of the school year in the dorkiest of fashions. This month we will be meeting on Monday May the 21st at the Yellow Jacket Social Club (1704 East 5th St, [...]

Finally we can announce our exciting new joint venture as we join forces with our good friends at the ATX Hackerspace to help put together SXSW Create, a Voltron-style all-day event of general awesomeness!
Next Tuesday, March 13th, we will be taking over Palm Park, located at 750 E 3rd Street, just East of the Austin [...]

SXSW is upon us! Batten down the hatches and prepare for the influx of nerds and dorks and geeks from the four corners of the map. Dorkbot is trying something new this year, instead of one big event we are collaborating with local groups to put on two separate events. The first [...]

Dorks and Dorkettes!
The time is upon us, once again! Join us on Monday, January 30th at the ATX Hackerspace from 7-10pm as we celebrate a new year of general dorkiness, and ask the question, “Do Robots Dream of Arduino Sheep?” This will be our last meeting before SXSW, so if you want to show off [...]

Fellow Dorkbotters, the holidays are upon us! Come and celebrate the end of a great year in the Land of the Dorks at the 32nd Dorkbot Austin on Monday, December the 12th at 7p. We’ll be hosted by the newest Austin hackerspace, Make ATX, located at the pump project art complex in SE [...]

Dorkbotters! All Hallow’s Eve is nearly upon us! Come celebrate Halloween LED ingenuity with us next Monday, October 24th from 7-10pm
at the Austin Hackerspace (1601 Rutherford Lane, A200, Austin TX 78754).
We have on tap:
Chase Hammock and his Electric Surfboard
The MakeATX Crew
The Freedom Towers of OccupyX
Musical Stylings!
Treats and Libations!
Prizes for DIY costumes!
And much more!
As ever, we welcome your [...]

Fellow Dorkbotters! The long hot summer is coming to a close and soon it will be safe to venture outside of our climate controlled homes for extended periods of time! As such, it is time for us to get together and show off our summer projects! This event will be a bit special, as we [...]

Introductory Arduino Workshop
Where: Studio 4E, CMB Building, UT Austin
When: 7:00PM Monday, December 6th
Facebook RSVP: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=145211748862334
Our instructor, Brandon Wiley (http://blanu.net/) will be walking us through Charlieplexing (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlieplexing), a method of addressing multiple LEDs while conserving I/O pins on a microcontroller.  This will cover both hardware and software.  If you do not have time to acquire the [...]

Dorkbotters! Halloween-o-rama is nearly upon us! This October, our Dorkbot meeting will be Halloween themed, costumes optional, but strongly encouraged! We are being hosted this month by the generous folks at the Austin Hackerspace on the north end of town. Be sure to check out their website for location details and more info about their [...]