Dorkbot-Boston – OpenProject night November 17, 2009

We are hosting an OpenProject session from 7PM-11PM on Tuesday November 17th at the Sprout/DINO shared space [339R Summer St. Somerville, MA 02144].

We are having two fantastically productive and prolific makers be in the space to demo their work and help you with yours:

Josh Gordonson Josh is a sophomore at MIT who’s recently received the Awesome Foundation’s Awesome grant, which will go towards creating several cotton candy guns, exposing the world to the horrors of ‘polysaccharide warfare’. For the past few years he’s been working on wearables (soft-circuits), time keeping devices (eddy current clock and others), and cotton candy machines (both standard and projectile). In the past few weeks, he has become deeply interested in learning how to integrate electronics with biological systems. On the average day, he enjoys embedding himself in nature, learning, and pondering the path towards our inevitable robot overlords.

Past and Present projects:
http://www.instructables.com/member/T3h_Muffinator
http://blog.awesomefoundation.org/post/205869776/october-awesome-fellowship-the-cotton-candy-cannon

Star Simpson Star is a mysterious and oft-sought after inventor of things previously never seen on this planet. Known to use any means necessary to accomplish her goals of making things both wacky and useful, Star delights in the using tools, from welders to wire nuts, and beyond.

Past and Present projects:
http://starbur.st/portfolio/
http://www.instructables.com/member/stasterisk

We also have a huge selection of tools and materials at the space so come with ideas or things half-made and be creative!