Just another geek in San Francisco
With major help from Miloh from Noisebridge, the launch of the DorkbotSF Ustream channel.
Other Opendorks were taped, but not streamed.
More info on the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.
Crazy? Or crazy awesome? Jon Sarriugarte & crew demonstrate a 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil on volunteers around 1am at the Dorkbot-SF 7th Anniversary Party.
More info at the sites for Jon Sarriugarte, Form and Reform (the venue), & the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.
Greg Leyh talks about the state of the art of big tesla coils, for Dorkbot-SF. The Q&A starts about 20 minutes in.
The video’s at Vimeo, along with the video of the Tesla coil demonstration that followed.
Greg Leyh has more information at the Nevada Lightning Laboratory & Lightning on Demand sites.
The Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting has more media, including more video of the coil demonstration.
Dave Mathews (with one “t,” not two) gave a presentation – “Software is the New Hardware” – for Dorkbot-SF in March, at the Hat Factory.
You can follow him on Twitter – @ggdm.
Bruce Damer talks about meteors hitting the earth, probing & mining asteroids, creating new lifeforms, sustainable space travel, & more.
Bruce Damer
The EvoGrid
2009-04-08
Dorkbot-SF
At The Gallery with No Name
More info at (primarily) damer.com though digitalspace.com & evogrid.org & b612foundation.org & biota.org are closely related.
Mitch Altman talked about the invention of TV-B-Gone & lifehacking, for Dorkbot-SF, at PariSoMa in San Francisco, CA.
The video’s on Google Video.
More info:
Cornfield Electronics
the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting
PariSoMa
Jeremy Bornstein demonstrates the making of soap, for Dorkbot-SF, at Polly Harrold’s Sometime Gallery, in Oakland, CA.
It’s just under 28 minutes long.
Video posted at Google Video & also Vimeo (as an experiment).
The beginning of Mark Pauline’s presentation at the Dorkbot Todd Blair fundraiser was moving.
I posted the video over on Google video, & here’s the audio as an mp3.
Edit: The Dorkbot fundraiser continues, & there’s a blog tracking Todd Blair’s recovery.
Three months later, after carefully cleaning this up, I’m, um, going to blabber on about it now.
The presentations at this meeting were very visual: first, a map of neighborhoods, drawn from Craigslist postings; second, software to visualize audio by frequency & the slight audio delays between ears.
However, as far as I know, no good copies of the streaming video for that night were saved. I would love to be mistaken. I’d almost suggest playing along with the map & audio software as you listen to this. The audio’s posted in decent-quality audio, so the software might actually have enough info to work.
Setting up & cleaning up this recording was a learning experience: I didn’t record the audience very well, & my recorder dropped a couple of minutes in a Q&A, which included a phone call from the internet to ask a question. I recovered audience commentary to the best of my ability, with limited materials; I lucked out that I could get the audience audible at all.
I left in the daughter of Jonathan Moore, the MC, just because I got a kick out of her happily wandering in, babbling for a bit, & then being given the controls of a flamethrower.
Anyway. Here’s the audio: 95 minutes, 90 meg. I encoded these at 128kbps because stereo music is involved.
For more information, see the Dorkbot SF page on this meeting.
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This was more Konteijner than Dorkbot. This came first before other recordings because the recording didn’t need much work, & it directly relates to stuff going on later this week.
Just want to listen to it? It’s 68 minutes, & 34 meg.
The contents:
For more information: blasthaus.com – kontejner.org -
dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf