A quick message from Mark W. Tilden...: Just a heads up that following a lecture by yours truly ("World Domination through Robot Toy Marketing"), 200 BIObugs will be released for mass behavioral experiments on Sunday, October 13 at the Ritz-Carlton in Pasadena, CA. Could be a record for the largest array of cooperating autonomous robots […]
Solarbotics at the MAKE Faire
Dave Hrynkiw
April 4, 2006
Sooo, if you're not familiar with Make Magazine, you should be! An excellent quarterly "bookzine" from O'Reilly publishing - them guys that do the computer books with the ink-line drawings of animals on the cover.
I'll be down there this April 22-23, giving BEAM lectures / workshops at their MAKE Faire in San Francisco, and a hands-on workshop. It'll be fun, so I hope to see you there!
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