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Minibot: Size Matters!
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2004 at 7.30 pm
Center on Contemporary
Art, Seattle, WA
Bart Cannon, “Don’t Kill Your Television:
Convert it to a Scanning Electron Microscope!”:
Bart Cannon has operated an independent electron microscopy
laboratory in his basement since 1984, when he purchased
a broken-down instrument at Boeing Surplus for $2,500. He
works on any inorganic job that can fit in his mail bin:
toxic particles, ore mineralogy, antiquities and murder
cases. He’ll be giving a simplified overview of scanning
electron microscopy, bringing a microscope and a CoCA logo
created with an electron beam. (http://www.cannonmicroprobe.com/)
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Ted Griebling, “Invention, Robotics and
the M&M’Bot”: Ted Griebling is a mechanical
engineer and ten year veteran of the Seattle area high-tech
product development industry. Ted's passion for invention
and robots has lead him to construct numerous award winning
robots for fun as well as for work. He is currently a consulting
engineer and pursuing multiple business ventures, and will
be showing us his M&M’Bot v.3 – an amazing
robot only 1” square that moves and sorts M&Ms
– in action. I think this is the first time Ted has
taken this version out for an airing!
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Pablos, “Ultra-Personal Computing”:
Notorious Internet man of mystery and San Francisco and
Seattle dorkbot regular Pablos has most recently (alongside
his ongoing work on crypto, security and privacy-related
projects with the Shmoo Group (http://shmoocon.org)) been
directing software development at OQO (http://www.oqo.com/company/about/),
the makers of a tiny, wireless machine they call an ‘ultra
personal computer’ or ‘uPC’. At 4.9”x3.4”x0.9”
with a complete thumb keyboard and mouse, it looks rather
like the only computer you need anywhere, for anything.
v1 launched a few days ago, so this is seriously hot off
the press (if one can use such an old-fashioned description
for such a newfangled device)…
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Doug Bell, “You Can Make A Simple
Walking Robot”: Seattle Robotics Society,
dorkbot-sea and Weird Science Salon regular Doug Bell
will use his own LEGO™ examples to illustrate
how, rather than requiring a servo motor for each
joint, his beautiful walking robots use mechanical
linkages to accomplish the walking motion, and so
only require one left and one right motor, rotating
continuously for straight motion, while steering is
like a tank or caterpillar tractor. Many of his robots
are based on examples culled from Techno Games (http://www.technogames.net),
the UK’s annual robotic Olympics, but his 48-legged
walker is based on a search and rescue robot created
by a Japanese University using whegs (wheels + legs)
to move smoothly on a flat surface and climb stairs.
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Have an announcement? A request? Need collaborators? Materials?
Advice? The floor is yours following the last presentation
and before the DJ starts. Email dorkbotsea@dorkbot.org
and I’ll add you to the roster, or just come and find
me during the presentations and let me know you’d like
to talk so I can wave to you when it’s your turn…
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Josh Herrala: Josh Herrala is the artist and
DJ behind Deluxe Curl Records (www.deluxecurl.com),
a minimal techno/micro-house label based in Seattle.
Coming up in the Detroit area, he began DJing in the
early 1990s during the 'Third Wave' of the Techno
revolution. By day he is a mild mannered network engineer
who works for a local training company. Building OOPic
based robots is his primary hobby.
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