Dorkbot Pittsburgh 15 at Brillobox
The 15th Dorkbot Pittsburgh is coming up on Thursday, April 24 at the Brillobox in Bloomfield. See http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotpgh/events.html for full details and directions.
If you attended last month’s Dorkbot you can expect more of the same, only this time focusing on robots! If you weren’t able to attend previously, you can always download video podcasts of previous speakers (including my Dancetown talk).
Dorkbot Pittsburgh is a monthly salon and show-and-tell for artists, scientists, social engineers, and others doing strange things with electricity. We meet upstairs at Brillobox on a monthly basis. Dorkbot is open to the public and admission is always free. This month’s speakers are:
Eric Schweikardt: Eric is a deliberate comprehensivist—his background is in architecture and now he makes modular robotic stuff. He’s convinced that playing with computational toys encourages kids to develop intuitions about complexity and become better designers. Eric will demonstrate roBlocks, a robotic construction kit made up of little magnetized cubes. He’s currently a PhD candidate in Computational Design at Carnegie Mellon University.
Marek Michalowski: Marek is a Ph.D. student in the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He participates in the Social Robots Project, the Project on People and Robots, Humanoids@CMU, and RoboOrg (the RI student organization). Marek will discuss BeatBots, a project to develop rhythmically intelligent robots for research and entertainment.