[Robotgroup] Dorkbot?

[Andre Lamothe]

I am always amazed at film changes things and makes them look real. When you 
look at the set models on the table, they look like models, but when they 
were lit and filmed they looked real. It will be interesting to see the 
final results with composite effects. I remember gasping a few times during 
star wars and the death star scene, it all looked VERY real down the trench, 
but there was one scene where "wedge"? or someone crashes into the surface 
and you could tell from the explosions that it was a model of course. That 
and it didn't help me seeing a photo of lucas walking on top of the death 
star set when I was 10-12 years old :)

Speaking of explosions, what was your source for your demo video? I used to 
use "Pyromania" cds as our explosions source material since particle 
simulated always looked bad.

Andre'

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <john at cozmicfunk.com>
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Sent: Friday, November 16, 2007 3:31 PM
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The highlight of my evening was enjoying the crowd reaction to my little
J-65 robot,
after a nerve racking video demonstration. How many laptops does it take
to play a dvd disc?
A one, a two, a three -CRUNCH- A three! <sigh>
It is nice to take the heat off the presenter and let the automatons do
the entertaining.
J-65 is destined to have his own movie at some point! WTG, LOL :) Thanks to
everyone that came out. It was a lot of fun!

JPF

Andre Lamothe wrote:
> 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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