Dorkbot

Dorkbot is an interesting bunch of techno-geeks who favor fun with electricity or electronics, or electrically powered sculpture. Saturday they held another presentation which included a computer-generated noise demo (the amps go all the way to 11!) which was reminiscent of hanging out on the flight line, too close to the engines, an indie band consisting of 2 guys playing 2 Apple notebooks and a drum simulator, who sounded pretty good, Motoman, who specializes in robotic mayhem reminiscent of Survival Research Labs, and some geek with a pneumatic squirrel gun.

Motoman had, as part of their props, a couple of chipboard cutouts of police SWAT team members. They graciously loaned me one of them for my demo, and a small kid propelled one of my darts, made from a 12 ga shotgun shell hull, with a 1/4-20 bolt through the primer hole, THROUGH the chipboard cutout. People were impressed.

The party was just getting rolling when I left. Long day.