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Mon, 11/10/2008 - 08:28 — breedx


Overheard at dorkbot last night...

Wed, 09/03/2008 - 04:13 — breedx

The following was heard over a soldering iron at our casual Dorkbot gathering last night:

"Christ, that night in the hospital...my underwear was covered in ferric chloride stains."

Heh. :) I couldn't stop laughing....only at Dorkbot!


Some of the tiniest soldering I've ever done

Thu, 08/28/2008 - 06:46 — breedx

In the last week or two I've been doing some of the smallest soldering I've ever attempted.

It all started with the KOLPXNTY board I've been designing and prototyping. I won't dive into detail here (maybe later!?), but the basic goal is to trigger a fairly large number of circuit bent devices from a networked computer.

kolpxnty

I'll put up a documentation page if/when it's more relevant.

Dorkboard assembly tutorial is online

Fri, 08/01/2008 - 06:18 — breedx

dorkboard assembly

I've placed a brief Dorkboard assembly tutorial online. It's my first attempt at a photo documented circuit tutorial, so feedback is always welcome.

I'm sure there are nuances/subtleties that I've missed...please report them and make the page better!

Meeting :: Tomorrow 5/26 7pm at NW Lucky Lab

Sun, 05/25/2008 - 18:11 — breedx
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7:00pm at the Lucky Lab NW

Many toys have been purchased for the workshop

Thu, 01/17/2008 - 07:17 — breedx
Lots and lots of noise toys

A couple of weeks ago, we hit the bins and obtained more than 50lbs (a pretty full shopping cart) of toys. The workshop should have plenty of fun and noisy things to hack apart. I'm continuously amazed at just how many toys have sound making devices embedded in them now...


Announcing: Haywire :: The circuit bending workshop

Tue, 12/25/2007 - 00:05 — breedx

I will be hosting a 5+ hour circuit bending workshop on Jan 27th, 2008 at PNCA. There is a flyer being printed:

haywire

And there is a general information page available at
http://dorkbodpdx.org/haywire . Please start to spread the word...

MEETING: THURSDAY 12/20 @ Backspace 7:00pm

Tue, 12/18/2007 - 06:13 — breedx
backspace_key.jpg

Hello DORKS.

Why wait for 2008? We're ushering in the new year early with a trifecta of change: Change of day, change of time, and change of venue! Note: We're moving the casual meeting day to THURSDAY and moving the location to BACKSPACE in downtown Portland, and starting 30 minutes earlier at 7:00pm.

ZAP! POW! Come on down on Wednesday!

Tue, 12/04/2007 - 07:11 — breedx
math professor calculator

Portland Dorkbot will be having an informal gathering on Wednesday, December 5th at 7:30pm at Vendetta on N Williams. Come on down and bring your mom.

We're generally pretty easy to spot. Be on the lookout for out-of-place uncomfortable dorks with glowing laptop screens and piles of gadgetry on the tables. Amen.

-/\/\/- DORKBOT MEETING -\/\/\- Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 7:30pm Vendetta

Wed, 11/07/2007 - 06:37 — breedx
apple apple beep bleep boop boopy pzzzzt

It's on like DONKEY KONG!

A group of like-minded dorkbot people will be conducting a casual social experiment over drinks at Vendetta at 7:30pm on Wednesday, 11/07.


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