Events

Just got this note from Matthew McCabe of Austin Hackerspace. Hope you all can make it out tonight.

Our new space, 1601 Rutherford Ln, Suite 200A, is located in east central Austin and has a lot to offer. As of September 1st, 2010, we’ll have access to 1200 square feet (with 400sqft of additional loft space) — most of it open slab — with 300 amp service, 2 zone A/C, beefy vent fans, a tidy water closet, and a roll-up door. There’s a roomy conference area in front and the faint scent of candles from a previous tenant in back. Access is easy no matter where you’re coming from in Austin, and the parking couldn’t be better! For those of you in south Austin, we are still holding our first location at 209 E. Ben White Blvd, Unit #106 for the foreseeable future.

Help us celebrate our most recent success! Come meet the members of the ATX Hackerspace as we get our game on at Dave & Busters this Friday at 7PM.

Hope to see some of you [Friday] or at the new space sometime soon!

Thanks to all of you who attended Dorkbot 23 @ SXSWi this year. We had a great turnout and some fantastic presentations. ArcAttack performed again this year, showing some feats of amazement with their Singing Tesla Coils. You can catch some of the presentation here. (Thanks to austin360.com for the video!)

Thank you to our sponsors!  Without them, our annual SXSW Dorkbot events wouldn’t be possible!

• SXSW Interactive
• Silicon Labs
• Mr. Data Consulting
• QRANK by Ricochet Labs

Special thanks to @bluedeerdesign for this photo.

Saturday March 13, 2010
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Brush Square Park 5th and Neches Austin, Texas

RSVP BEFORE FRIDAY MAR 12th, 11:59PM
You must RSVP if you’re not a SXSW-interactive badge holder!
RSVPs through facebook will be registered to win giveaways from Make magazine!

Co-Sponsored by:

• SXSW Interactive
• Silicon Labs
• Mr. Data Consulting
• QRANK by Ricochet Labs

We’re still in need of at least one more sponsor to help cover rental costs.  If you’d like to help out and have your name attached to one of the visible and popular SXSW-interactive events, please let us know!

Current presenters include:

Dorkbot 22 is coming to UT’s ACTLab!

Monday, December 14, 2009
7:00 – 9:00 PM

Once again in the CMB Building at Dean Keaton and Guadalupe, on the 4th floor, Studio 4B aka the ACTLab. (parking map)

Current Presenters

• Drake Wilson presents his Firefly Jars
• Dan Hemingson presents his ambisonic microphone and recording work
• John P. Funk presents his modern space-age lighting fixtures and props built with recycled materials and LEDs.
  Original LED Space Lights and atmosphere lighting
  Quest for the Dark Planet space film
• Erik Debill presents his custom temperature sensing and data logging project using a custom arduino compatible board, shields, and Ruby on Rails application
• John Boiles presents his Christmas-spirit-meter powered by twitter

See you there!

Thurs. Oct 15th 2009 7:30-9:00pm

Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35) (512) 236-8634 FREE EVENT

If you have a project or something you’d like to present, let us know!

Current Presenters:

• Alan Watts presents his new animation app Toon Fu
• Mikal Hart shows off his GPS Box
• Andre Lamothe demos the new chameleons
• Dr. Bleep, Dann Green, and Eric Archer annouce the Handmade Music Austin workshop series, and demo their new Andromeda Space Rockers mini-instruments
• John Boiles shows off his ipod contolled devices (1, 2)
• Brooks Coleman
• Marvin Niebuhr

Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event.

Saturday March 14, 2009 from 6:00pm – 8:00pm Brush Square Park 5th and Neches Austin, Texas Get Directions

RSVP BEFORE FRIDAY MAR 13, 11:59PM

RSVP (Option 1):  Join the dorkbot-austin announce list (all dorkbot-austin announcelist members have automatic RSVP+1)

RSVP (Option 2):  http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1904017

Co-sponsored by:

• SXSW Interactive
• Silicon Labs
• Mr. Data Consulting
• Monstrous
• Make Magazine

Signs provided by BuildASign.com Giveaways from Mike Rigsby, author of Pointless (yet awesome) Projects for the Electronically Inclined

Current presenters include:

• ArcAttack – Singing Tesla Coils – http://www.arcattack.com/
• Operation Playmate – Extra-planetary Erich Ragsdale vs. Eric Archer’s Big Box o’ Techno – http://www.myspace.com/operationplaymate
• Phil Macnutt – Homebuilt Analog Synthesizer – http://www.philmacnutt.com/siterrt/Analog_Modular.html
• Bleep Labs – http://bleeplabs.com/
• Jason Asbahr / Monstro.us – Presents their latest release Entranced, a 3D interactive music experience game-as-art – http://www.monstro.us
• Alison Lewis – Battery powered crafts to make and sew – http://iheartswitch.com/switchcraft
• FIRST Robotics Anderson High School FIRST robot team #2158, and Girl Scouts of Central Texas FIRST robot team #2881
• George Sabra – Bringing his latest e-waste sculpture http://www.georgesabra.com
• Marvin Niebuhr – Prickly Pear Cactus Rhythm Synth http://flimflamlab.blogspot.com
• The Robot Group – A large selection of projects including the Babbling Head, Ping Pong Printer, Glamour Girl, and more – http://www.robotgroup.org/
• Aileen Adler – Theremin for the Masses – http://www.thereminforthemasses.com
• Lori 16mm Varga – Lots of odd film/handpainted footage and circuit bent sounds
• Jay Smith / Livid – Viditar MIDI controller – http://www.lividinstruments.com
• Bob Comer – Robots used at and info about the Computer Studies and Robotics and Automation program at ACC
• Bill Byrne / The Painful Leg Injuries -  Software and hardware instruments by controlled by Nintendo Wii-mote http://myspace.com/painfulleginjuries
• John P. Funk – multi disciplinary artist, Inventor & creator of LED Space Lights http://www.cozmicfunk.com

Dorkbot 19 @ the ACTLab

dorkbot-austin @ UT’s ACTLab

Wed. Feb 11th 2009 7:00-10:00pm

In this building on the 4th floor studio 4B aka the ACTLab.

Parking map

There are also major bus routes right in front of the building and a bike rack right underneath. Parking at any gray city meter is free after 5:45pm

dorkbot-austin @ UT’s ACTLab

Wed. Nov 12th 2008 6:30-9:00pm (Presentations @ 7:00)

In this building on the 4th floor studio 4B aka the ACTLab.

Parking map There are also major bus routes right in front of the building and a bike rack right underneath.  Parking at any gray city meter is free after 5:45pm

• ACTLab Intro:  A little back story and introduction of people working with the ACTLab – UT’s new media initiative
• Sandy Stone – Sandy’s Fan Club:  A look into micro controllers and more
• Cecy Correa – Presenting a preview of a documentary she is working on about the actlab.
• Joey Lopez – Studying Car Culture in Central Texas, learning to hack in the backyard.
• Other cool stuff from the ACTLab – steam punk projects, circuit bending and more!

Thursday, September 18, 7PM Cafe Mundi 1704 E 5th St. (a few blocks east of I-35) (512) 236-8634

Dorkbot is, as always, a FREE event.

http://www.dorkbotaustin.org

• Meredith Johns and Carolyn O’Hara from Hawgfly show off their gore cannon http://www.hawgfly.com/gorecannon.html
• Edwin Wise is back with a preview of the Abyssal Organ tech he’ll be setting up at Maker Faire and using in the Scare for a Cure haunt.
• Music showcasing the big box-o-techno http://ericarcher.net/devices/big-box-o-techno/ by Operation Playmate – Erich Ragsdale, Eric Archer, and Chad A
• Nick Pietraniec brings a work-in-progress guitar hero-bot.

Last minute event planned for next Thursday 8pm at Cafe Mundi.  Confirmed projects:

• Adam Iseman: ard-e, his sub-$100 robotics platform ( http://www.instructables.com/id/Ard-e-The-robot-with-an-Arduino-as-a-brain/)

• Jason Delaney: steampunk (literally) in a homebrew still that can be used to make alcohol, herbal oils, purify water, etc.