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Demo of the Hexagonal Repurposed Junk Array #1; my piece for RZN8, the 2012 ArtCon Seed Auction. This is a combination audio player dock and light organ made from 100% recycled or repurposed surplus parts. The exterior is ...

Quick demo of progress on my RZN8 project. The electronics are all working but I still need to complete the case.

David Anderson of the Dallas Personal Robotics Group demonstrates his techniques for subsumption based behavior for robots. David Anderson provided...

I combined the 2 frame per second data from the security cams in our hackerspace with some music to make a time lapse view of the Dallas Makerspace 2010 Open House. The event ran noon to midnight, so you're getting 12 hour...

I shot this late in the evening when things slowed down enough a little.

Steve Reeves develops the first ever print processed in the newly completed darkroom at Dallas Makerspace.

Ron demonstrates Will's linear sensor array at the 20 Jan 2010 DPRG Robot Builders Night Out, hosted at Integrated Control Systems.

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The DPRG expanded its presence at All-Con 2010 to 2 tables and a large display area for movie replica robots. We also hosted four presentations inc...

This was shot about 1am Thursday morning after we completed the setup and testing of the Noise Boundary reed organ and glockenspiel robots. This wa...

The DPRG table at the Museum of Nature and Science Tech Fest from Saturday, 20 Feb, 2010.

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Steve explains how the robotic reed organ will run in the field. This is the first test of the complete power system for the reed organ. When it ...

The snowpocolypse hit Dallas yesterday and we got more snow than I've ever seen in Texas. Susan and I put on winter coats that we haven't worn in years, and tried to use a plastic trash can lid as a sled. When that didn't ...

Here's a quick look at projects being worked on at the 15 Dec, 2009 RBNO at Probotics.

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Steve and Ed got the ULN2803 driver board wired up to the Megaduino

and the solenoids on the xylophone. After a few software tweaks,

Steve could s...

Some random video shot at the 8 Dec, 2009 RBNO at XMAX in Lakewood. Trying out a new camcorder.

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Steve and Ed test out the solenoids on a robotic xylophone at Tuesday night's Robot Builder's Night Out at XMax Games. This robot will compose and...

After getting the Robot Xylophone to respond to MIDI, Steve wrote a

quick ChucK program to send random notes to the Xylophone. This

demonstrates t...

Steve explains the latest progress on the Glockenspiel and Ed demos some of his algorithmic composition code. Video by Glenn Pipe. Shot at the RBN...

Two minutes of speed networking at Spark Club #2, held in CoHabitat in Dallas, TX. Spark Club is a gathering of local people interested in finding ways to make the world suck less. (the official description is "a network o...

Steve of robots.net unboxes a VEX Protobot Dual Control Starter Bundle at a DPRG RBNO meeting. Steve will be writing a review of the new kit for Ro...