Dorkbot SoCal Sun. Oct. 19

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Dorkbot SoCal 56 - The Reboot

***** Sunday, October 19, 2014
***** 11:00 am to 1:00pm
***** Machine Project
***** 1200 D North Alvarado Street
***** Los Angeles, CA 90026
***** Google map of Machine Project

Speakers will include...

Garnet Hertz
http://www.conceptlab.com

Dorkbot SoCal's overlord emeritus has moved to Vancouver, but will return to us through the power of videoconferencing to narrate his travelogue of the Chinese maker/hacker culture including the 2014 Shenzhen Maker Faire, Seeed Studio, theChaihuo Hackerspace in Shenzhen, as well as the Xin Che Jian Hackerspace in Shanghai.

Garnet is now the Canada Research Chair in Design and Media Arts at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver Canada, and previously was previously Artist in Residence and Research Scientist in Informatics at UC Irvine. And he has built robots controlled by cockroaches :)



Matt Pinner & Kyle Cothern
https://www.suprmasv.com/projects/156/led-staff-for-spinning-crowd-con

Matt & Kyle have created an awesome 8ft long carbon fiber staff stuffed to the gills with RGB LEDs that produce a bright flow of energy circling around the user.

 

Thomas Edwards
http://www.t11s.com

Thomas will talk about how you can use 3D capture software such as 123D Catch to make your own digital holograms with Zebra Imaging. 

 

Jennifer Fox
http://www.jenfoxbot.blogspot.com

Conserving freshwater is one of those seemingly constant struggles, especially with a human population exceeding seven billion. There are many ways to optimize irrigation systems and reduce water consumption; one of these ways is to install a soil moisture sensor. Jennifer will describe how to build a Raspberry Pi Soil Moisture Sensor.