Fwd: dorkbot at machine saturday afternoon 1pm

Begin forwarded message:
>
> Hello,
>
> We're pleased to inform you Machine will be hosting the first of a
> regular monthly meeting of Dorkbot this Saturday afternoon at 1pm.
>
> For those not familar, Dorkbot is a show and tell get together for
> people interested in doing strange things with electricity. It's
> casual, mildly educational, free, and a good way to meet fellow
> electronics dorks. This meeting features gps/mobile device gaming,
> TI99/4a circuit bending, and a robotic spherical lens camera 3D
> invention. More details at the end of the email.
>
> Non-dorks also welcome.
>
> love,
>
> Machine.
>
> Dorkbot meeting
> Saturday Dec 3rd, 1pm
> 1200D North Alvarado Street, Los Angeles, CA 90026
> 213-483-8761
> http://www.machineproject.com
> http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsocal/
>
> presenters:
>
> Julian Bleecker & Peter Brinson: Vis-a-Vis Games
> http://www.visavisgames.org/
> We're developing a new kind of game experience using outdoor
> viewable mobile devices that anticipate the near-future of
> pervasive electronic gaming. These devices range in size from
> about that of a tiny laptop, to the size of a small book. We
> then configure these portable mobile devices with a GPS sensor
> that measure your location in the real world, and orientation
> sensors that can tell precisely where you're looking. This
> combination makes for designs that represent a true innovation
> in game play. Vis-a-Vis Games is an enterprise of the Mobile
> and Pervasive Lab at the University of Southern California.
>
> //——————–
>
> Phil Stearns: TI99/4a Circuit Bending
> Through "circuit bending" and creative analog to digital
> switching, I've managed to turn a friendly TI99/4a computer (c
> 1981) into a pixel-spewing entity that likes to feed on sound
> waves and spit out garbled, colorful, and highly pixelated
> images in realtime.A The device was born out of a desire to
> explore the artistic possibilities of what happens when our
> discarded technology is forcefully but carefully coaxed into
> modes of failure.
>
> //——————–
>
> Jay Mark Johnson: Robotic Spherical Lens Camera 3D Invention
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0425323/
> Jay Mark Johnson will be presenting a robotic camera with a
> spherical lens that takes High Dynamic Range images and
> converts them to lighting rigs to be used in 3D applications
> for image based rendering. He also has some "top secret" stuff
> he's doing with the camera, which he may be talking about.
> He's worked on a pile of movies, including "A Day Withought a
> Mexican", "Nomad", "The Matrix" and "Titanic".