pronoiac announcements

Dorkbot-SF, 2009-09-23, lofi streaming video

pronoiac — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:36:42 +0000

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.

Jon Sarriugarte & crew, Hogan Tesla Coil demonstration, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-06-20

pronoiac — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:33:39 +0000

Crazy? Or crazy awesome? Jon Sarriugarte & crew demonstrate a 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil on volunteers around 1am at the Dorkbot-SF 7th Anniversary Party.

The video is up on Vimeo.

More info at the sites for Jon Sarriugarte, Form and Reform (the venue), & the Dorkbot-SF page for this meeting.

Greg Leyh, Lightning Lab & Tesla Coils, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-06-03

pronoiac — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:07:30 +0000

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.

Cleaning

pronoiac — Mon, 25 May 2009 19:47:37 +0000

I’m moving much of my audio over to Amazon S3. Old links should keep working. I’ll check before I change the links & I’ll keep an eye out for breakage, but if I miss anything, please let me know!

China Miéville, 2007-02-28

pronoiac — Fri, 22 May 2009 23:26:17 +0000

From the archives, but previously unpublished: This is an old, lo-fi recording of a China Miéville Q&A from a couple of years ago, as part of his tour for Un Lun Dun, at the Fourth St. Berkeley location of Cody’s, now closed & dearly missed.

Listing the questions made it seem somehow less engaging, so I’ll leave those out, with the exception of a hard-to-hear reference: When he talks about his reading material, he mentions the story of Saki (the pen name of H.H. Munro) called Sredni Vashtar.

His latest book, The City & the City, is being published this month.

Download the MP3 – 38 minutes, 36 megabytes, 128 kbps.

I’m posting this at a new subdomain; let me know if it doesn’t work for you.

Dave Mathews, Software is the New Hardware, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-03-11

pronoiac — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:15:56 +0000

Dave Mathews (with one “t,” not two) gave a presentation – “Software is the New Hardware” – for Dorkbot-SF in March, at the Hat Factory.

Video available at vimeo.

You can follow him on Twitter – @ggdm.

Bruce Damer, The EvoGrid, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-04-08

pronoiac — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 02:19:14 +0000

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.

dorkbot.org/dorkbotsf/archive/200904/

Mitch Altman, TV-B-Gone & lifehacking, Dorkbot-SF, 2009-02-25

pronoiac — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 01:38:22 +0000

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, Introduction to Soapmaking, Dorkbot-SF, 2008-05-29

pronoiac — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:56:43 +0000

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).

SVHMPC / hbmobile – 2008-03-12

pronoiac — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 02:50:18 +0000

Silicon Valley Homebrewed Mobile Phone Club, held in conjunction with the Emerging Communications Conference at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View.

Mark Wood talked about the Cell Broadcast System, for broadcasting text messages over geographic areas. He’s the CTO of CellCast, & he lectures on Disaster Telecommunications at the University of Wisconsin. He also works with organizations such as ETSI, ITU, & the Civil Emergency Alert Service Association.

For more information, see hbmobile.org (currently down).

Video – Posted at Google Video.
Audio – mp3 – 62 min, 44 meg, 96kbps.

Edit: Here are some supplements while hbmobile.org is down: a new mailing list, a working mirror of the wiki (content dating from late February), & the mirrored meeting announcement, in which it becomes clear that the description above was swiped.