dorkbottacoma
people doing strange
things with electricity...
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... a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students, scientists, and other interested parties from the Tacoma area who are involved in the creative use of electricity - electronic art (in the broadest sense of the word). |
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Meetings
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| Meetings are on the third Tuesday of every month Meetings are at: Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA 1117 Broadway, Tacoma (with an exception in May) From 7:00PM to 10:00PM (doors open at 6:30) |
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Past
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| #4 Dorkbot Tacoma #4 Dorkbot Tacoma's fourth meeting! April 24, at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA, 1117 Broadway, 7:00 PM |
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Bill Beaty - Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle’s science hobbyists into action – and leading them from the front – since 1984: that’s twenty years of bangs and whimpers. Bill returns to demonstrate his Crooke's cathode ray tube, and knowing Bill, other possible surprises as well. |
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Informal Open Dork - One of our speakers didn't make it tonight but Tacoma dorkbotters rose to the occasion, circled our chairs and talked about things dork. Julie talked about her upcoming fashion show at urbanXchange - looking for tech effects, Eric brought an electrically shrunken quarter, Doug showed his silver medal from Robothon. |
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| #3 Dorkbot Tacoma #3 Dorkbot Tacoma's third meeting! April 24, at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA, 1117 Broadway, 7:00 PM |
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Doug Bell - Doug uses Microsoft Excel as an engineering and art design and simulation tool, and would like to show us a bit about how he does it, by using the X/Y (Scatter) Chart mode for general purpose drawing, driven by spreadsheets. |
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Ryan Weh and Brad Larsen - Radio-Controlled Blimp-Mounted Camera. At the meeting they'll talk about the issues that they came across when trying the various camera systems, and how they converged onto the solution that they are using now. They will also cover some other issues with using the camera itself, such as some basic vibration damping advice. |
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Open Dork - There will be time at every meeting for informal presentations, announcements, and information sharing. |
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| #2 Dorkbot Tacoma #2 Dorkbot Tacoma's second meeting! March 20, at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA, 1117 Broadway, 7:00 PM |
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William J. Beaty - Weird Science Salon Founder and mad professor emeritus William J. Beaty has been goading Seattle’s science hobbyists into action – and leading them from the front – since 1984: that’s twenty years of bangs and whimpers. Bill will bring Captain Kangaroo's magic drawing board (overhead proj) and do various random stuff. He'll also bring his microwave oven, argon bottle, etc. |
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Joe Benner - Tacoma art and technology buff Joe Benner will talk about the Kinetic Wooden Fish on a Stick sculpture that he made for the Tacoma Siteworks Dance Festival. |
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Open Dork - There will be time at every meeting for informal presentations, announcements, and information sharing. |
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| #1 Dorkbot Tacoma #1 Dorkbot Tacoma's first meeting! February 20, at Tacoma School of the Arts' Club SOTA, 1117 Broadway, 7:00 PM |
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Justin Gorman - The Justin Show is a multi-media presentation by Tacoma-based artist Justin Gorman, a cohesive collage of unique short stories, rants, observations and satirical political critique. The presentation is a synthesis of produced videos drawn from Mr. Gorman's four solo CD releases, and PowerPoint presentations inspired by the ease of appropriation in this era of digital information. |
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Eric McNeill - Untitled: Portrait, Movement - Rabbit!!!: Seattle-based artist and technologist Eric McNeill will discuss the design and construction of his animated LED panels, and will also give an introduction to using Rabbit Microprocessors. In addition to simply showing lo-res video, "Untitled (Portrait/Movement)" is an example of some of the more advanced things you can do with a $50 micro like the Rabbit - for example, networking support to allow the piece to put or fetch media on or from the Internet. |
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| Other dorkbots |
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Dorkbot.org - Dorkbot central. The mother ship. The central location for all things 'dork'. Dorkbot happens around the world. Check it out! |
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Dorkbot NYC - First there was dorkbotnyc, a monthly meeting of electronic artists in new york. |
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Dorkbot Seattle - See what our neighboring dorks to the North have been doing over the past few years. |
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| The purpose of dorkbot is to: |
give artists/programmers/engineers an opportunity for informal peer review establish a forum for the presentation of new art works, technology, software, hardware help establish relationships and foster collaboration between people with various backgrounds and interests give us all a chance to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on |
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