[Robotgroup] First Night Austin just placed an order... :)

Tue Oct 3 00:53:34 PDT 2006

Thanks Denise,

You know it is such a small world, I was at our Buddhist world peace meeting 
on Sunday
and Beverly J. asked me if I was part of the cafe Mundi robot thing and she 
said Denise S..
she wasn't even able to get your name out before I said that I met you and 
that you were very
helpful in helping me set up my grant for First Night. I think My 
presentation was very ambitious
for them, so with the lack of funds this year, it is easier for them to go 
with the simpler more
family oriented proposals.

I don't go for the easy or simple or sure thing, I go for Gold. You don't 
know me very well
I have been wanting to make a real robot prop for my film idea which has 
been in the
making for about 13 or so years. I put 5 months into the prop  this past 
year, it has broken
down two times frying the RC board and I am a little out of my league in the 
electrical
engineering. When I can get back to it and finish the prop, I will be happy 
to say that I am a
Robot Group Member, how can a person be a robot group member if they have 
never built a
robot?

So now,  Maybe I can finish my robot and put it in the Robot Petting Zoo and 
get two birds
with one Robot. I will be done with my short film this month and I am sure 
the RG will get all of
their grants. I will keep my fingers crossed to be able to finish my Robot. 
I really want to be
a card carrying member that has built my own robot from scratch. The 
Jupitron 65 is really a
nice robot who wants to be fully functional. He also wants to be a member, 
He deserves it :)

John "keeping fingers crossed to someday finish his robot after 13 years" P. 
Funk

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denise Scioli" <morg80 at hotmail.com>
To: <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] First Night Austin just placed an order... :)

> Don't feel bad John. It is a huge team of two that is plowing through and
> doing all of the calling and figuring.  I haven't heard of any others
> myself, but they said (because I called) that there would be emails and
> letters going out this week.  So, really, don't feel bad.  They may get
> additional funding, so some projects may be ressurected.  Know anyone who
> wants to fund some projects?
>
> Denise
>
>
>>From: "John P. Funk" <john at cozmicfunk.com>
>>Reply-To: Austin Robotgroup Mailing List <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>>To: "Austin Robotgroup Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>,
>><vern at txis.com>
>>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] First Night Austin just placed an order... :)
>>Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 17:10:24 -0500
>>
>>Glad to hear that someone got their projects accepted. I have been waiting
>>for weeks to hear something and I decided to call them myself.
>>Unfortunately
>>I did not get my proposal accepted, and the irritating thing is that they
>>have waited so long to tell people. Like I said, I had to call them to 
>>find
>>out
>>
>>-J
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Paul Atkinson" <pma32904 at yahoo.com>
>>To: <vern at txis.com>; "Austin Robotgroup Mailing List"
>><robotgroup at puremagic.com>
>>Sent: Monday, October 02, 2006 4:24 PM
>>Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] First Night Austin just placed an order... :)
>>
>>
>>Cool! Did they fund any of the other projects?
>>
>>Glad you are weaned from sleep. Guess that means you can stay up all night
>>and work while the rest of us sleep!
>>
>>Paul
>>
>>Vern Graner <vern at txis.com> wrote:
>>FOR -=>TWO<=- ROBOSPINART MACHINES!!!! WOOHOO We're funded baby!
>>
>>Thats right, inbound phone call from Gennifer Sanders asking if we can
>>build TWO of the RoboSpinArt machines! :D
>>
>>To make life even more interesting, they want the machine ready for a
>>debut at their press conference THIS THURSDAY at 12:15pm at City Hall!!
>>
>>YOW!!! :D I'm Psyched!!! :)
>>
>>hmmm.. I think I have some work to do (and by "I" I mean "we"!) ;)
>>
>>Better kiss this "sleep" thing goodbye... Good thing I've been weening
>>myself from it over the last few weeks... ;)
>>
>>Vern
>>
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