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Images from Spaceman Sam Video Stream from James Young time: 7:30pm Wednesday 13 January 2010 place: Jellyfish Gallery (not its real name) 1286 Folsom @ 9th San Francisco, CA Directions FREE ADMISSION but donations appreciated.

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Pavel Machalek - From Pixels to Exoplanet Atmospheres Hundreds of planets have now been discovered around other stars and for those that orbit their star in our line of sight we can observe them transit in front of and behind their star. I will briefly talk about how observations with the Hubble and Spitzer Space Telescopes has enabled astronomers to study the atmospheres of transiting planets and what the near future holds for such studies. Pavel works at NASA Ames studying exoplanet atmosheres with the Spitzer Space Telescope after getting his PhD in Astronomy at Johns Hopkins University. He was born in Prague and lived in London, Dharamshala, Baltimore and now San Francisco. http://pavelm.com Camp L. Peavy - Homebrewed Robots Camp L. Peavy, Jr. has been building robots for over 20 years. Highlights include creating the 1996 autonomous Robot Wars champion "Gladiator Rodney" and the Burning Man ARTBot "Springy Thingy". In 2003 Peavy and others founded the "TABLEBot Challenge" currently in its 8th year of coopetition. He has written several articles for SERVO magazine and earnestly desires total world domination. It all started with a book by David L. Heiserman entitled "How to Build Your Own Self-Programming Robot". After years of wrestling with this graduate level engineering course Peavy eventually applied Heiserman's "Alpha" level machine intelligence theory to a store-bought PC and is still working on "Beta" and "Gamma" level experiments. Come hear about the three levels of machine intelligence and discover the craft of "Homebrewed Robots!" http://www.camppeavy.com/ Eric Boyd - North Paw: Haptic Compass Anklet Augmented reality usually means overlaying information on your visual field. But humans have a lot more senses than just vision, and for something as physical as direction, touch seems like a more natural interface anyway. North Paw is an anklet which contains 8 small vibrating pager motors, a microcontroller, and a compass IC. The original German guy who pioneered the haptic compass idea (in a belt form) reported an unerring sense of direction after wearing it for six weeks. The talk will focus on the details of how the device works and the experience of wearing it. Plus open ended discussion of our cyborg nature and the plasticity of the brain - what other senses do you want? Eric is an engineer and hacker, transhumanist and environmentalist. Lately he's been building wearable electronic devices which augment his senses. Please join the noisebridge cyborg group: 1pm Sundays at Noisebridge, till the hacking stops. http://sensebridge.net/projects/northpaw Please mail Anselm Hook (anselm [at] hook [dot] org) or Karen Marcelo (dorkbotSF [at] dorkbot [dot] org) if you would like to open dork (10-15 min mini-presentation) 2002 Archives:   Jun 12 2002   Aug 14 2002   Sep 11 2002   Dec 04 2002 2003 Archives:   Jan 15 2003   Feb 12 2003   Jun 4 2003   Sep 24 2003   Oct 23 2003 2004 Archives:   Jan 14 2004   Mar 10 2004   April 7 2004   June 2 2004   July 21 2004   Oct 27 2004   Dec 15 2004 2005 Archives:   Feb 09 2005   Jun 01 2005   Jul 20 2005   Aug 17 2005   Sep 14 2005   Oct 19 2005   Nov 30 2005 2006 Archives:   Jan 25 2006   Apr 26 2006   Jun 21 2006   Jul 26 2006   Aug 09 2006   Oct 11 2006   Nov 08 2006 2007 Archives:   Feb 19 2006   Mar 14 2007   May 02 2007   May 23 2007   Jun 06 2007   Aug 15 2007   Oct 10 2007 2008 Archives:   May 28 2008   Sep 10 2008   Nov 25 2008 2009 Archives:   Jan 13 2009   Feb 25 2009   Mar 11 2009   Apr 08 2009   Jun 03 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Meeting   Jun 20 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Party   Sep 23 2009   Nov 18 2009 2010 Archives:   Jan 13 2010   Tours / Related Events: Tour of SLAC with Greg Leyh (June 2005) monochrom's Experience the Experience of 1 Baud (July 2005) kontejner's Device Art Forum (November 2006) Cold War Ruins Tour (June 2007) with Todd Lappin and Jason Pipes Private Tour with Trimpin! (March 25 2009) Private Tour of Jacques Littlefield's Tank Collection (April 11 2009) Press: BB Video: Tank Tour - One of the World's Largest Collections of Historic Military Technology   posted by Xeni Jardin BoingBoing June 2009 The art of living dangerously   by Annalee Newitz New Scientist July 2006 Issue 2560 Non-subscriber version here dorkbot: Warehouse of Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Projects   by David Pescovitz   Make Magazine Premiere Issue 2005 dorkbot-sf is a spinoff of dorkbot-nyc which is "a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)" 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 If you would like to speak at a future dorkbotSF contact Karen Marcelo (dorkbotsf [@] dorkbot [.] org) and Anselm Hook (anselm [@] hook [.] org) dorkbotSF mailing list info         RSS dorkbot.org