DorkBot NCL

Comment by David Hughes on January 26, 2010 at 12:36pm

Anyone know when the next Dorkbot is happened?

Comment by David Hughes on January 26, 2010 at 12:47pm

BTW, Brian... Love the beard...

Comment by Northern Film & Media on January 26, 2010 at 1:24pm

can you tell us more about Dorkbot?

Comment by Brian Degger on January 26, 2010 at 11:48pm

Roxy.... Ok Dorkbot is a worldwide movement, basically its an event where people talk about "doing strange things with electricity", there are chapters in Edinburgh(alba) and London, and heaps around the world (info at dorkbot.org).
DorkbotNCL has had 3 events so far, with the last one, last Wednesday where David Hughs talked about how not to design a hardware synth, Bo the clown about making and tinkering and doing, and John O'Shea about process, technological artifacts and what we will be doing with technology in the future.

Comment by Brian Degger on January 26, 2010 at 11:49pm

Will put up an event when I hear....

Comment by Brian Degger on February 22, 2010 at 4:15pm

Next dorkbot 4th March 6.30 for 7pm start featuring Georgia Rakusen (Haus Projects), Sam Goldwater, Brian Deggers and the King Brothers.
come to the Lifelab entrance at the Centre for Life on Central Parkway as for previous events

Comment by Brian Degger on May 4, 2010 at 2:25pm

next Dorkbot will be 13th May and will feature two speakers

Cassandra Harrison – Gocco. Cassandra is a print and textile artist and founder of Gee How Quaint (www.geehowquaint.com) and is the former Don of the Newcastle Craft Mafia, now based in Edinburgh. Cassandra uses Gocco printing in her work, a technique developed in Japan for domestic printing of greeting cards and the like which was popular there from the 1960’s, but the equipment for it is no longer made. Cassandra will be talking about the technique and about the attempts by Gocco artists world-wide to hack alternative hardware to allow Gocco printing to continue.



Shaun Allen - "NewcastleGateshead virtually, with Vector76" Vector76 specialise in the design and development of content for 3D virtual worlds such as Second Life and Opensim, creating, among other things virtual NewcastleGateshead islands in Second Life



Final slot will be used to reflect on how Newcastle Dorkbot seems to be developing, and where participants would like to take it in the future, so everyone will have an opportunity to shape where we go next.



As usual Entry is free and there will be a pay bar, and it’s in the Lifelab Welcome Room , entrance Central Parkway, (see http://tinyurl.com/ljwfoo )

Comment by Michael Lambert on May 24, 2010 at 8:17pm

Hello from Alicemedia

Comment by Brian Degger on June 3, 2010 at 11:17pm

events coming up : 29th June Dorkbot http://www.digitaldockyard.com/events/dorkbot-ncl

24th/25th July Howduino http://www.digitaldockyard.com/events/howduino-1

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