[Robotgroup] Dorkbot?

[Andre Lamothe]

The furby thing was hardly art in my opinion :) I was hoping that the 
furbies were going to possibly lip sync and or dance to some kind of techno 
or alternative music blended with their pre-recorded sound effects from 
their voice box, but it was more or less just feedback amplified -- yuck. 
The scary thing is that they "play" at many venues, so "someone" apparently 
likes this kind of noise :)

And yes, I heard that the arduino people meet before, but didn't see any 
robot people there?

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "LHudson" <lhudson73 at yahoo.com>
To: "The Robot Group Mailing List" <robotgroup at puremagic.com>
Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 12:56 PM
Subject: Re: [Robotgroup] Dorkbot?


What is/was the Arduino SIG?  I missed it as my wife and I were among those 
driven away by the Furby choir, which wasn't really a choir.  It was just 
six Furbies miked up to a sound system that violated the noise ordinance by 
about 500 dBs.  One of which was sleeping the entire time for some reason.

  Before his presentation the inventor declared that he had hooked up a 
potentiometer to each Furby.  I could not for the life of me figure out why.

  Scott

David Nunez <david at davidnunez.com> wrote:
  It was ok.

I think the "freezing freezing cold" scared off a lot of folks.

Our acts were nicely diverse, this time. (and our final act, the
furby youth choir, scared / annoyed the hell out of half the crowd
who promptly were driven away).

Chase Hammocks internet pod -- nice and polished. Really amazing setup.

Ward Christies VR/Cam Backpack setup was a hit... a lot of audience
interaction.

JohnF did an amazing presentation -- his AV was extremely appropriate
and added quite a bit to his project (short snippets of video that he
talked over).

Marvin was there with some new biomechanicals (I really am afraid to
see what his house looks like), and announced a performance of
screaming baby heads on Dec 1 at Scoot Inn.

The Arduino SIG drew about 8 people and there was definite interest
for followup (probably at a venue where we can all work on projects
together.)

Looking forward to the holiday break to regroup and get ready for
dorkbot in january.

Whee!


On Nov 16, 2007, at 9:59 AM, Paul Atkinson wrote:

> Inquiring minds want to know...
>
> On Nov 16, 2007 9:49 AM, Vern Graner wrote:
>> I got stuck at the office last night (trying to finish my N&V
>> column!)
>> and didn't make it out to Dorkbot dangit.. :(
>>
>> So, how was it? :)
>>
>> Vern
>>
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