[Robotgroup] Blockheads for First Night? (Was Detect the Rink. Re: Drive a Droid proposal)

[Vern Graner]

Brooksdesign wrote:
> One other way of doing this may be like my BlockHeads robots where the objective IS to knock your opponent out of the ring and a roboteer standing by just resets them to their starting corners. By the way I have been cleaning them up after posting the new video http://wiki.therobotgroup.org/wiki/BlockHeads and was thinking of donating them to the group for use in outreach events, especialy if someone wanted to convert them to RC and cut the cords.
> -brooks

Brooks, have you considered submitting a proposal for First Night 
yourself? They have project budgets of $5000, $10,000 & $15,000 to grant.

Have a look at the proposal I put together for Rick if you want to know 
what they are expecting in a submission:

http://www.notepad.org/Drive-a-Droid6b.pdf

Also have a look at their call to artists for details:

http://www.notepad.org/FNAcalltoartists2009.pdf

My $0.02 is that a rehabilitated/updated Blockheads exhibit would make 
for a cool interactive family event! :)

Vern

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