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Dorkbot Austin: Awesomely Strange Projects!

Thanks to everybody who came out to Cafe Mundi Thursday for Dorkbot. Not a huge crowd, but we did have some great projects. In no particular order:

Jason Delaney's literally steampunk still, meant for distilling water, herbal essences, or (theoretically) alcohol.

John P. Funk and his cosmically funky LED light sculpture.

L. Scott Hudson's .NET-programmed, talking robot head. Check out video of it in action here.

Chase Hammock's bookbag-based, wearable multimedia entertainment system, complete with cold cathode tubes. Chase was nice enough to not mind me posting this "deer in headlights" picture of him:)

Adam Iseman and ard-e, his sub-$100 Arduino-based robot.

If you're in Austin and have something strange with electricity you've made, let us know and come show it off next month!

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Posted by: Scott Saunders on August 23, 2008 at 2:15 PM

My favorite line of the night was from L. Scott Hudson. Something like "It has two speeds: fast, and fast backwards."

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