Get your Dork on this Saturday
Posted: March 8th, 2007, 12:56 am
From my friends at "Amaze" (aka "Fizz Factor"), a cool Austin game dev company... ~Sara
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Howdy friends,
We’re hosting another Dorkbot this Saturday, March 10, 6:00 pm, and this one will be the biggest Dorkbot in the world. No kidding. January’s Wired Magazine singled out Austin for having the largest Dorkbot in the U.S. With this special Dorkbot on Saturday coinciding with SXSW, we’ll have the biggest single Dorkbot in the world, according to Dorkbot’s founder in New York. Join us Saturday and feel good about being called a big ol’ dork.
Come see what all the fuss is about. It’s fun, it’s free, it’s fun for adults and kids alike, it’s people doing strange things with electricity. While it’s free, you need to RSVP to get in. Just zip an email here and you’re good to go: rsvp@dorkbotaustin.org.
Viva la dork!
Rodney
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Make Magazine, IDGA-Austin and SXSW present:
DORKBOT
A celebration of people doing strange things with electricity
–or–
A science fair with beer.
Saturday, March 10, 6–8 pm
Brush Square Park
5th @ Neches St.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/ywuskp
www.dorkbotaustin.org
This is a FREE SXSW Interactive event open to SXSW Interactive badge holders and the public. If you don’t have a badge, though, you must RSVP. By sending an email to rsvp@dorkbotaustin.org before Saturday, March 10, noon.
Who’ll be there?
* Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor – MAKE Magazine) and Limor Fried (former fellow at EYEBEAM R&D and mad genius behind adafruit industries) will talk about subversive technology.
* Paul Baker will mesmerize you with his video feedback projections
* John-Mike Reed (Bleep Labs) brings his trained thingamagoops
* The Geek Group has singing tesla coils. Enough said.
* John Funk reanimates old, discarded toys into wildly futuristic movie props.
* Music by Tree Wave on hacked Atari 2600s and DJ Greg Most of Waxploitation! (donning his Star Trek duds).
* Limited edition dorkbot6 posters designed by artist Noel Waggener from Subculture Press.
* Dorks from dorkbots past return for their one and only reunion geek-out: The Robot Group’s diabolical menagerie, Craig Newswanger’s homebuilt telescope, Jerry Chamkis and the terrifying kosmophone, The Electric Pickle, Marvin Niebuhr and his new percussionator, and Alan Watts with his dancing Mikons.
* Open Dork! Come with your own project and get 30 seconds on the mike to tell the crowd about your demented electronic pursuits.
Robots, geeks, music, high voltage and beer. Will it blend? You have to be there to find out. See you Saturday!
P.S. After dorkbot, check out the dorkbot/barcamp mashup at 8:00 and the dorkbot/barcamp after-party featuring soulhat at 10:00 at Bourbon Rocks (6th & Neches).
*****
Howdy friends,
We’re hosting another Dorkbot this Saturday, March 10, 6:00 pm, and this one will be the biggest Dorkbot in the world. No kidding. January’s Wired Magazine singled out Austin for having the largest Dorkbot in the U.S. With this special Dorkbot on Saturday coinciding with SXSW, we’ll have the biggest single Dorkbot in the world, according to Dorkbot’s founder in New York. Join us Saturday and feel good about being called a big ol’ dork.
Come see what all the fuss is about. It’s fun, it’s free, it’s fun for adults and kids alike, it’s people doing strange things with electricity. While it’s free, you need to RSVP to get in. Just zip an email here and you’re good to go: rsvp@dorkbotaustin.org.
Viva la dork!
Rodney
*********************************
Make Magazine, IDGA-Austin and SXSW present:
DORKBOT
A celebration of people doing strange things with electricity
–or–
A science fair with beer.
Saturday, March 10, 6–8 pm
Brush Square Park
5th @ Neches St.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/ywuskp
www.dorkbotaustin.org
This is a FREE SXSW Interactive event open to SXSW Interactive badge holders and the public. If you don’t have a badge, though, you must RSVP. By sending an email to rsvp@dorkbotaustin.org before Saturday, March 10, noon.
Who’ll be there?
* Phillip Torrone (Senior Editor – MAKE Magazine) and Limor Fried (former fellow at EYEBEAM R&D and mad genius behind adafruit industries) will talk about subversive technology.
* Paul Baker will mesmerize you with his video feedback projections
* John-Mike Reed (Bleep Labs) brings his trained thingamagoops
* The Geek Group has singing tesla coils. Enough said.
* John Funk reanimates old, discarded toys into wildly futuristic movie props.
* Music by Tree Wave on hacked Atari 2600s and DJ Greg Most of Waxploitation! (donning his Star Trek duds).
* Limited edition dorkbot6 posters designed by artist Noel Waggener from Subculture Press.
* Dorks from dorkbots past return for their one and only reunion geek-out: The Robot Group’s diabolical menagerie, Craig Newswanger’s homebuilt telescope, Jerry Chamkis and the terrifying kosmophone, The Electric Pickle, Marvin Niebuhr and his new percussionator, and Alan Watts with his dancing Mikons.
* Open Dork! Come with your own project and get 30 seconds on the mike to tell the crowd about your demented electronic pursuits.
Robots, geeks, music, high voltage and beer. Will it blend? You have to be there to find out. See you Saturday!
P.S. After dorkbot, check out the dorkbot/barcamp mashup at 8:00 and the dorkbot/barcamp after-party featuring soulhat at 10:00 at Bourbon Rocks (6th & Neches).