{"id":9428,"date":"2007-01-25T15:15:36","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T15:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=9428"},"modified":"2007-01-25T15:15:36","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T15:15:36","slug":"dorkbot-dc-was-sro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9428","title":{"rendered":"Dorkbot DC Was SRO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/beamGar1.jpg\"><\/center> <\/p>\n<p> Last night&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/dorkbot.org\/dorkbotdc\/\" target=\"new\">Dorkbot DC<\/a> was wonderful, and jam-packed. There were some 70 people there! It was an amazing mix of artists, programmers, composers, engineers, museum curators, pirate\/fringe radio operators, a nice range of ages, races, a lot of women. Really an inspiring mix of people. <\/p>\n<p> Randall Packard did his faux gov&#8217;t dept rant showing very unsettling slides of our American slide into fundamentalism. And then for something completely different, I talked about and demo&#8217;d cute little robots you build from junk that run around and annoy your housepets. Wheeee&#8230; <\/p>\n<p> The pic above is of me demo&#8217;ing my BEAMbots. A PDF of my talk can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/dorkBotBEAM.pdf\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>. Thomas Edwards has a few more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/82207382@N00\/369100682\/\" target=\"new\">pics of the night<\/a> up on Flickr. <\/p>\n<p> The next Dorkbot is on Feb 20th, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.provisionslibrary.org\/\" target=\"new\">Provisions Library<\/a>. Mark your calendars. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digg.com\/submit\" target=\"new\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/img\/badges\/91x17-digg-button-alt.gif\" width=\"91\" height=\"17\" alt=\"Digg!\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night&#8217;s Dorkbot DC was wonderful, and jam-packed. There were some 70 people there! It was an amazing mix of artists, programmers, composers, engineers, museum curators, pirate\/fringe radio operators, a nice range of ages, races, a lot of women. Really an inspiring mix of people. Randall Packard did his faux gov&#8217;t dept rant showing very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=9428\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dorkbot DC Was SRO&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}