[Robotgroup] Dorkbot Cancelled this Week

[Def Egge]

Good advice, David.

As Vern Graner's son, Nick, once asked, "When do these guys stop talking
about robots and start building them?"


All the best....

Mike


At 16:43 2006/08/08 -0500, you wrote:
>Please accept our humble apologies, but Dorkbot is cancelled for  
>August.   We will not be holding dorkbot this Thursday.
>
>Truth is, we had a little trouble wrangling enough presenters to make  
>for an interesting evening due to vacations and August weirdness.
>
>The good news is that we are expecting a super-duper-happy-fun time  
>on September 14, 2006, 8PM at Cafe Mundi and already have some really  
>incredible speakers lined up.
>
>In lieu of dorkbot this week, here's our challenge to you:
>
>Put at least 20 minutes into making something today.  **
>
>It doesn't have to be elaborate.  It doesn't have to be over-the-top  
>technical or revolutionary.  It just has to be 20 minutes of solid  
>effort.   20 minutes is small.  It's doable.  It's not staying up all  
>night.  It's just making the commitment to your passion for about  
>2.404750594 as long as it takes light to reach earth from the sun.   
>from the SUN!
>
>Oh, yeah.  Spend 20 minutes getting your hands dirty on something -  
>physically working on something with your hands.
>
>It doesn't count to just read about a project or surf the web for  
>ideas (those things are important, but our challenge to you is to get  
>past WONDERING and get to BUILDING).
>
>If you have a project you've been kicking around in your garage -  
>tinker around on it for 20 minutes right now.   Got a software art  
>project that's been gathering dust?  20 minutes to add a new  
>feature.  Go.   T-shirt with a stitched octopus that lights up with  
>LEDs?  20 minutes to create the design.. no coffee break, please.  
>Robot chassis modification?  20 minutes with a dremel and you're  
>done.  That "wouldn't-it-be-cool-if" idea you have been sketching in  
>your notebook?  It ain't all that cool unless it becomes real.
>
>So make it real.
>
>Then let us know about your project, no matter how "incomplete" it  
>happens to be.   At dorkbot, the process IS the art... and this  
>community could probably help you along the way.
>
>We have an unmoderated mailing list for all us dorks to kick around  
>build ideas.
>Sign up here: <http://music.columbia.edu/mailman/listinfo/ 
>dorkbotaustin-blabber>
>
>Thanks again for your patience and we can't wait to start hearing  
>about all those mad science projects in Austin!
>
>**(if you're already spending 20 minutes or more a day on projects,  
>then, for crying out loud, email dorkbotaustin at dorkbot.org right now  
>so we can schedule you for a dorkbot meeting)
>
>dork on!
>
>David Nunez, Rodney Gibbs, Rich LeGrand, and Luke Iseman
>Dorkbot Austin Instigators
>
>http://www.dorkbot.org/dorkbotaustin
>
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