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Images and Video time: 8:00pm - 2:00am Saturday 20 June 2009 place: Kraftworks 2600 Magnolia @ 26th West Oakland, CA Directions $10 DONATION to our host Jon Sarriugarte much appreciated. Twin 15 Foot Tesla Coils just to light a lightbulb! Golden Mean, Marriage Wrecker and Muffin Art Cars! Tasty Food by Nick & Kiva Beer by Lagunitas Spark Bar hosted by Amy and Brian Boiler Bar! Fire Gardens! LIVE ELECTROCUTIONS by the 1928 Hogan Device! Complete information and presenter bios on our host Jon Sarriugarte's 7 Year Dorkbot Anniversary Party blog post here!

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Special 7 Year Anniversary Meeting and PARTY! Keith Johnson and Greg Solberg - Building Electric Cars from Scratch Keith and Greg will show how to bake an electric cupcake, the Tesla Roadster, and the Marriage Wrecker Jon Sarriugarte - Giant Iron Snail Car, Golden Mean, 1928 Hogan Tesla Coil, Power Tool Drag Racing, Volt-Aged Whiskey Pick one of those topics and Jon our host will talk about it! http://formandreform.com http://jonsarriugarte.com Mike Winter - Interrogation by Robot Recently Mike created robots that hug, laugh, interrogate, party, make up stories, remove free will and buy beer. Currently he is working on Artificial Personality projects. He will be talking about interrogation by robot, there will be a short video. Omega Recoil - Wireless Transmission: How Did Nikola Tesla Do It? In the late 1800s Nikola Tesla began experimenting with transmitting power wirelessly via the earth's crust and the ionosphere. He invented what we now know as the Tesla Coil; this device was capable of generating extremely high voltages, and was the pre-curser to radio transmission. What was Tesla doing? How was he doing it? Does wireless power work? The Omega Recoil team have been re-creating some of Tesla's wireless power experiments, with interesting results. Omega Recoil's presentation will include videos of their Tesla Coils running and power being transmitted wirelessly. http://omegarecoil.com/ Please mail Karen Marcelo (dorkbotSF [at] dorkbot [dot] org) if you would like to open dork (10-15 min mini-presentation) 2002 Archives:   Jun 12 2002   Aug 14 2002   Sep 11 2002   Dec 04 2002 2003 Archives:   Jan 15 2003   Feb 12 2003   Jun 4 2003   Sep 24 2003   Oct 23 2003 2004 Archives:   Jan 14 2004   Mar 10 2004   April 7 2004   June 2 2004   July 21 2004   Oct 27 2004   Dec 15 2004 2005 Archives:   Feb 09 2005   Jun 01 2005   Jul 20 2005   Aug 17 2005   Sep 14 2005   Oct 19 2005   Nov 30 2005 2006 Archives:   Jan 25 2006   Apr 26 2006   Jun 21 2006   Jul 26 2006   Aug 09 2006   Oct 11 2006   Nov 08 2006 2007 Archives:   Feb 19 2006   Mar 14 2007   May 02 2007   May 23 2007   Jun 06 2007   Aug 15 2007   Oct 10 2007 2008 Archives:   May 28 2008   Sep 10 2008   Nov 25 2008 2009 Archives:   Jan 13 2009   Feb 25 2009   Mar 11 2009   Apr 08 2009   Jun 03 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Meeting   Jun 20 2009 - 7 Year Anniversary Party Tours / Related Events: Tour of SLAC with Greg Leyh (June 2005) monochrom's Experience the Experience of 1 Baud (July 2005) kontejner's Device Art Forum (November 2006) Cold War Ruins Tour (June 2007) with Todd Lappin and Jason Pipes Private Tour with Trimpin! (March 25 2009) Private Tour of Jacques Littlefield's Tank Collection (April 11 2009) Press: BB Video: Tank Tour - One of the World's Largest Collections of Historic Military Technology   posted by Xeni Jardin BoingBoing June 2009 The art of living dangerously   by Annalee Newitz New Scientist July 2006 Issue 2560 Non-subscriber version here dorkbot: Warehouse of Wild, Weird, and Wonderful Projects   by David Pescovitz   Make Magazine Premiere Issue 2005 dorkbot-sf is a spinoff of dorkbot-nyc which is "a monthly meeting of artists (sound/image/movement/whatever), designers, engineers, students and other interested parties from the new york area who are involved in the creation of electronic art (in the broadest sense of the term.)" the purpose of dorkbot is to give artists/programmers/engineers an opportunity for informal peer review establish a forum for the presentation of new art works/technology/software/hardware help establish relationships and foster collaboration between people with various backgrounds and interests give us all a chance to see the cool things that our neighbors are working on If you would like to speak at a future dorkbotSF contact Karen Marcelo (dorkbotsf [@] dorkbot [.] org) dorkbotSF mailing list info         RSS dorkbot.org