dorkbot-boston 200902 - Latte Printer, SMD mounting, opendork February 24, 2009

dorkbot-boston 200902
http://www.dorkbotboston.com
FREE EVENT

Tue, Feb 24, 7-9PM
Willoughby&Baltic Hackerspace
195 Elm Street, Somerville.
(Davis Square, alley between Joey's Thai & the Subway sandwich shop)

Dorkbot-boston is a monthly gathering of people doing strange things with electricity. Bring your projects, in whatever state they are in, and bring 10 friends!

This months presenters:

* Oleksiy Pikalo (http://opikalo.wordpress.com/) is an independent inventor and artist who created a machine that can print intricate designs on lattes or other foamy beverages. At dorkbot, he will talk about the design process and technical challenges for building this artwork and demonstrate the device on tasty drinks. He’s turned this idea into a business (http://onlatte.com) and he will talk about how that process has been going.

“Long time ago, I saw a great video about ‘Latte Art’, and figured that I absolutely must build a machine capable of printing the most beautiful art on top of my latte. So I bought a used x-y flatbed plotter (Philips 8155) on eBay and a great book by Matt Gilliland, titled ‘Inkjet Applications’ I put the two together, to get this nice Latte Art Printing Machine.”

* Ryan O’Hara is an engineer and owner of an independent design firm focused on unique consumer electronics (ohararp.com). At Maker Faire, he gave live demonstrations of how to use stencils and hotplate to include SMT (Surface Mount Technology) components in art projects. Since SMT has come up on the mailing list a few times, Ryan has graciously offered to give us tips and techniques that should help clear up how we might approach using SMT in our own pieces.

* OpenDork - Everyone is encouraged to bring your own recently completed or projects-in-progress for OpenDork, a lightning round-the-room session of peer-review and general showing-off. Art and technology projects at all stages (sketchbook to polished) and of all levels of complexity are welcomed. This is the perfect chance to say, “Hey, I’m trying to do something interesting… here is what I’ve got so far. Can anyone offer suggestions to move forward?”

Also mark your calendars:

* [03/07] Deadline: Dorkbot-Seattle Strange Things - http://dorkbot.org/dorkbotsea/events/pdstwe4/callforartists.shtml
* [03/31 7PM] Dorkbot-Boston 200903
Dorkbot mailing list for art/technology event announcements and discussion:

http://groups.google.com/group/DorkbotBoston

Official Website: http://www.dorkbotboston.com