[Robotgroup] Armadillocon 28 update

[Def Egge]

The idea that Tom Morin floated was the "Automating Fear" talk that you
presented at Linucon on The Spider's Preyground.  I believe that post (my
reply to Chuck Siros and to TRG mailing list with the topic suggestion) did
eventually make it to the list on Tuesday evening.

Perhaps Eric would give his introduction to the aims and brief history of TGG.

We have Babbling Head, Eric's Black Knight, possibly (thought dubious) the
CNC 3-D mill, some assorted small 'bots, ... to display at the tables along
with any of the props and projects you use in your presentation (the SUV is
a neat item to show off if you want to).

I offer my humblest apologies to the group (along with a sincere offer to
abdicate the presidency, if anyone wants to take that over) for this being
so disorganized.  I have been through it this (finals) week with grading.
Tom Morin, our main contact with FACT / Armadillocon, had to leave for the
valley to attend to his family.  A number of details were dropped along the
way and not picked up on time (some, such as the admission passes, are
still not entirely resolved).


All the best....

Mike




At 13:08 2006/08/11 -0500, you wrote:
>Def Egge wrote:
>> The location for the event
>
>Ok. so. uh. I'm supposed to do *what* exactly? I can do any of the 
>following:
>
>--BS my way through any panel topic (I have what is know as the Gift of 
>the Blarney!) ;)
>
>--BS my way through any panel topic I suggested in the earlier emails..
>
>In either of the above cases, a bit of time to google around and/or 
>print out information on said topic would be appreciated :)
>
>
>-- Bring Therepings for demonstration, participation or decoration (with 
>or without full drum kit depending on space available)
>
>With the Therepings, we may not be welcome to make a bunch of racket if 
>we are located ion a room full of folks trying to engage customers in 
>conversations to facilitate commerce...
>
>-- Bring the RoboSpinArt in its partially created state...
>
>This might be too much as it really isn't ready for prime time.. I could 
>of course (if there is space) use the time to actually solder together 
>the needed cabling to make it function for the first time there at the 
>con...?
>
>-- Bring the SUV in its partial state for display and/or as a platform 
>for some of our Basic Stamp language aware folks to play around with 
>writing code..?
>
>
>-- Bring the P.A. system, the dungeon keeper coffin and the XAR robot, 
>along with my video projector and my laptop and re-present the 
>"Automating Fear" presentation I did at linucon
>
>
>So, someone have any idea as to what of the above, should happen?
>
>Vern
>
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