March 27 - Distributed Automation Roundtable with Derek Jacoby & MIT's HTGAA

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi all,

This month long-time automation clubber Derek Jacoby will lead a roundtable discussion on Distributed Automation, focusing on his experience doing it for MIT Media Lab's massively distributed course How To Grow Almost Anything. We'll meet Wednesday, March 27 at 3pm Pacific / 6pm Eastern / 22h UK / 6am+1day Taiwan Time. As usual, you'll also receive a calendar invite.

If you don't know How To Grow Almost Anything, you should. Here's a little from their website:
Building upon the tradition of ‘How to Make (Almost) Anything,’ we are offering ‘How to Grow (Almost) Anything,’ a course to teach experienced bio-enthusiasts and those new to the life sciences alike skills at the cutting edge of bioengineering and synthetic biology.

HTGAA is unique in that it is simultaneously taught with MIT and Harvard students, and students from around the world who are not enrolled in either institution. Literally you could sign up next year.

Unique this year, HTGAA is trying to get Opentrons liquid handling robots to different "nodes" around the world so that global participants can do labwork as well. Derek will tell us more about that work, then we'll open the floor for conversation about what works in this kind of distributed automation, and what the challenges are. So come ready to share your thoughts on distributed automation.

Zoom link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89691919961?pwd=23DOU0aajaWB7NYm83Ka6A7530xEM5.1

passcode:866320

Collaborative notes are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqOpvehO3UDMq-T97Ioz-0qZSTXJwkM2w8-REAQcpBU/edit?usp=sharing

💖🤖,

Tim

[Tim Dobbs]

Hi folks,

Just a reminder that we're meeting later today. The notes have some discussion points about distributed automation for the whole group, so bring your opinions :)

Zoom link is here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89691919961?pwd=23DOU0aajaWB7NYm83Ka6A7530xEM5.1

passcode:866320

Collaborative notes are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DqOpvehO3UDMq-T97Ioz-0qZSTXJwkM2w8-REAQcpBU/edit?usp=sharing

Looking forward to seeing you all,

Tim

[Tim Dobbs]

Thanks everyone for the great conversation earlier this week.

The video is here: https://youtu.be/XEhvJk3FYnU?si=TmtbFsxTM2my3xNs

Keep an eye out for the next scheduling invite and, as always, if you have an idea for an upcoming session, let me know.

Tim