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More Dorkiness: Pittsburgh

J. Eric Townsend, of Dorkbot Pittsburgh, wanted to make sure folks here knew about their March meeting: March 20, 2008, 7:30-9:30pm. They meet at Brillobox, located at 4104 Penn Ave (at Main) in the Bloomfield neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA. Jia Ji, Touchtown. Jia is the Director of Product Management for Dancetown, a dance-based digital fitness […]

March Dorkbot DC

March Dorkbot DC

Tuesday, 25 March 2008 7 PM – 9 PM (ET) ALWAYS FREE! Location: Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Tom Lee  :  Cheaper Arduino Wifi Bringing ethernet connectivity to the Arduino for around fifty dollars, Lady Ada’s XPort Shield has gotten people understandably excited. But […]

Steve Lodefink on D+R

Steve Lodefink on D+R

MAKE contributor Steve Lodefink is guest blogging on Mister Jalopy and Mark Frauenfelder’s Dinosaurs and Robots blog. Sample post: This 1955 Popular Science article shows us the dawn of the CNC machine tool age. Sure, the history is super interesting, but I can’t stop looking at the cute little tape-munching computers in the opening spread. […]