Announcements

Got any myths you want busted?

Jamie and Adam of Mythbusters will be doing 2 shows in Seattle on October 4th. Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage take you on a behind-the-scenes look at the Discovery Channel’s Mythbusters with a hilarious and entertaining Inside The Scientist’s Studio style presentation. They will bring stories of myths gone wrong and outtakes of segments never […]

The 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

The 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge

This is your chance to help the world, and maybe even win $100k in The Buckminster Fuller challenge. Buckminster Fuller’s prolific life of exploration, discovery, invention and teaching was driven by his intention “to make the world work for 100% of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or disadvantage […]

American Maker Schedule

American Maker is this Saturday [September 20th, 2008] at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago. We have a great schedule of Makers on the web site, including links to all the projects that will be on display. If you are in the Chicago area you really shouldn’t miss this event, there is going […]

Dorkbot DC September meeting

30 September 20087 – 9 PM (ET) Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Schedule for next meeting Bruce Howard : The Lightglove Virtual Controller  :  Lightglove is a “virtual controller” technology worn underneath the wrist that optically senses hand shape and tracks position with motion […]

Make: DC meeting tomorrow night

Make: DC meeting tomorrow night

The next gathering of Make: DC is tomorrow night (Sept 16). We’ll be meeting at Greater Goods again (at 8pm) and we’ll be working on our Make: DC robot project. Our goal is to create the cheapest fully-programmable, Arduino-based robot development platform possible. You can see our progress so far, the six-dollar motor driver board, […]