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Posted October 22nd 2005 under Events
This week was my first visit to Dorkbot London, a monthly meet up of London artists who are involved in the creation of electronic art. Each month I will provide a small report from Dorkbot. Here are my photos.
First up was Anab Jain who presented some of her works from studying interation design at the RCA. Anab talked about the concept project sketch-a-move, yellow chair stories and sunlight table, among other things.
Second was Rob Myers who presented a series of drawing artworks and software, including paintr (a combination of flickr, colr and autotrace hacking) and draw-something [photo].
Dr Voltage (aka Mike) brought along a contraption that looked like it was going to fry us all, but thankfully didn’t. Instead it was a musical device played by passing an electrical current through varying sized tubes. Not a very detail description, but I will ask Mike to explain more later.
Richard Wildey is a programmer who created software that collected data from other websites, such as the house prices by area in London or the ages of women on dating sites :) [photo]. Rudulfo briefly showed a project at Cellfire, to do with security and encryption in gsm mobile phones [photo]. Javier Candeira from Dorkbot Madrid talked about Arduino on behalf of its developers [photo].
Lastly, Tom Carden and Steve Coast presented a lovely A0 print of GPS map of London. Data submitted to OpenStreetMap of people walking, driving and cycling around London. So the thicker the lines, the more people travelled them. Ordering details are here, proceeds go to the OpenStreetMap project.
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