Robot Party tomorrow!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

The Robot Party is tomorrow, Thursday at 8PM ET / 5PM PT! This week might be a little different than other weeks thanks to Google+ Hangouts on Air being available to everyone! This is such a super step forward, and will hopefully help greatly with bandwidth issues.

We will be broadcasting LIVE from Evil Mad Science! We may also be giving away a goodie or two, more details on that soon to come! There will be lots of robots, maybe we will put the webcam on the CNC again!

What is the Robot Party?
The Robot Party is a weekly Google+ hangout that brings together robot builders from all over to share their robots, knowledge, and ask questions! It is for all age ranges, young or old, just bring your robot!

The Robot Party is every Thursday at 8PM ET! If you have a robot, join the hangout on Google+ HERE! Be sure to leave a comment on one of the posts so we can add you to our circles for the party.

Hope to see ya at the Robot Party!

Posted in: Robot Party.

Robot Party Extravaganza Recap!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Monday, May 7th, 2012

The Robot Party from last week was fantastic! It was LIVE from Evil Mad Science where we showed the LetsMakeRobots v4 drawing with prizes from seeedstudio using NilsB’s robot that Andrew relayed for us! PHEW!

There were many cool robots on this Robot Party! It’s most excellent to see everyone helping everyone! Here we are holding up some robots, the Eggbot and RoboBrrd and a Medium Tank!

You can watch the recording of the Robot Party on YouTube on this playlist!

Here is part 1 of 5!

The complete list of winners is here!
http://letsmakerobots.com/node/31820

Chaot’s live drawing is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeTsyiKaJoQ

RobotFreak’s live drawing is here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxVMKiFoXto

It was great to see the robots working live! Here was another robot that stopped by- DataBus from the Sparkfun Autonomous Vehicle Challenge!

Eaglesnest Robotics was also there! They got to show off their Meggy Jr RGBs to the Evil Mad Scientists themselves! Pretty cool!

Didn’t get a chance to donate? Good news! Adafruit Industries has added 5 more prizes! So pop over to LetsMakeRobots now and donate! More info to come on when they will be drawn, and maybe more special things will happen!

LIVE ROCKS! Special thanks to Evil Mad Science for being there LIVE and their speedy internet to broadcast the Robot Party!

See everyone again on Thursday, 8PM ET / 5PM PT!
http://robotgrrl.com/robotparty

Posted in: EMSL, Fun, Robot Party.

Robot Party: LetsMakeRobots v4 Celebration, Prizes from seeedstudio, LIVE from EMSL!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, May 2nd, 2012

The ROBOT PARTY is tomorrow at 8PM ET / 5PM PT! This is a very special edition broadcasted LIVE from Evil Mad Science that is celebrating the fantastic website LetsMakeRobots and their recent version 4 fundraiser! If you donated to their v4 fund before May 1st, then you were entered into a drawing to win 5 fabulous prizes from seeedstudio! You can still donate to LMR anyway!

But the fun doesn’t stop there! How are we to determine who will win these prizes? With a robot of course! During the Robot Party, Chaot by NilsB will be randomly drawing the 5 lucky winners! This robot was finely crafted and is very intense in its science, so go and check it out on LMR!

There’s even more! The Robot Party will be broadcasted LIVE from Evil Mad Science! Last week we had robots on top of robots on top of robots, and this week there will be more of that! Many robots, and you can ask whatever questions about the robots that you want! Ever wanted to go on a shopbot CNC ride? You’ll be able to! Also, congrats to them for 100% more evil mad!

We hope to see you there as it is bound to be a very exciting time! There shouldn’t be as many technical difficulties as last time, as the internet is now very speedy! Since we had a special request to post the recording of the Robot Party this week, if you can’t make it you will be able to watch the recording! Bring your robots, and see YOU at the Robot Party!

Posted in: Robot Party.

ROBOT PARTY @ Evil Mad Science! (EMSL)

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Tomorrow (Thursday) is the Robot Party! This Robot Party is VERY SPECIAL because it is taking place at Evil Mad Science!

They have tons of robots here, the biggest one is the shopbot. We might put the webcam on the shopbot and have it move around! Lenore & Windell will also be around so you can ask them LOTS of questions!

What is the Robot Party?
The Robot Party is a weekly Google+ hangout that brings together robot builders from all over to share their robots, knowledge, and ask questions! It is for all age ranges, young or old, just bring your robot!

To watch the Robot Party, go to the Robot Party page HERE!

To join the Robot Party with your robot, watch our Google+ page for the hangout HERE! (Usually 5-10mins before showtime)

To see old photos of the Robot Party, check out the flickr collection HERE!

Looking forward to hanging out with everyone again! We’ve heard from Eaglesnest Robotics recently and they have been building up their Tiny Tanks, so it will be really cool to see them!

Also since this is on the tail end of RoboGames and the Homebrew Robotics Group meeting, we may have new people!

The bandwidth for this Robot Party seems like it will be okay, the upload speed is 0.27Mbps. We’ll see how it goes

SEE YOU AT THE ROBOT PARTY! Tell all your friends!

Posted in: EMSL, Robot Party.

RoboGames! RobotGrrl @ RoboGames 2012 & Robot Party!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, April 17th, 2012

We are going to be at RoboGames 2012! YEAH! It’s going to be a great time!

For sure we will be doing a presentation about the Robot Party (called Remote Robot Hacking) on Sunday at 2:00PM. We still have to make sure that we’ll have a place for our robots, fingers crossed that it won’t be a problem.

EVERYONE should come to the Robot Party presentation! Tell all your friends! It’s only 15 minutes, and it is going to have loads of photos about the Robot Party. It won’t be serious like the other talks. I’ll be telling stories about people and projects from the Robot Party, there will be so many photos to look at on the screen it will be great

Maybe there will even be a little Robot Party or two over the weekend!

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Also if you need to get a hold of me, Twitter will be the best way!

We’ll take lots of pics and videos so that we can share all the fun with you all!

Preparing for this presentation has been pretty intense for the past couple of days. It’s a lot more curating and digging through archives than I thought. The rough intro/outro words were complete last week, which gave me an idea of what archives I should dig through.

Since the Robot Party was originally inspired from the Fatman and Circuit Girl stream, I found the recording from when I was on it, WAY BACK in September 20, 2009! The really cool part about this is that apparently Jeri is also going to be at RoboGames, so it will be great to meet her!

Also dug through my old Ustream recorded videos. Here’s a screenshot from the very first Robot Party, back in September 30, 2011!

Here’s a screenshot of the very first Google+ Robot Party, back in July, 2011!

There are now OODLES of ‘Ye Olde Robot Party’ photos as a collection on Flickr. Check it out!

And even more photos! There are some other uploads of past Robot Party photos on flickr in the Robot Party collection. You can also see them in my Google+ Photo Albums.

Here is the latest and greatest set of photos from the Robot Party last week! Last week we were celebrating National Robotics Week, even though we celebrate robotics every single week! This one had great discussions about OpenCV, 3d modelling, and Android apps. Joey from LWJM.US was there too!

There is still some more archiving and curating to do. It’s been pretty crazy to dig through many months of old footage and prepare it. I’m thinking that maybe there can be a Robot Party MUSEUM webpage that will display lots of Robot Party photos, that we can show at Maker Faire.

Thanks to all the friends who have donated, are donating, and will donate to my robotics fund, and to the friends who are letting me stay over! SEE YOU AT ROBOGAMES & ROBOT PARTY!

Posted in: Maker Faire, RoboBrrd (thx Adafruit!), Robot Party, WyoLum Progress.

National Robotics Week – Robot Party tonight!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Thursday, April 12th, 2012

You’re invited to the Robot Party, tonight at 8PM ET! Join us for lots of fun, knowledge, and robotics! If you have a robot, bring it to the Google+ Hangout (make sure I have you in my circles)! Or, you can watch the stream on the page!

Looking forward to your robots! SEE YA THERE!

ALSO! I’ll be giving a talk at RoboGames about the Robot Party! It will be a lot of fun, looking forward to seeing everyone there! Crossing my fingers that I’ll be able to display my robots as well!

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What is the Robot Party?

The Robot Party is a weekly Google+ hangout that brings together robot builders from all over to share their robots, knowledge, and ask questions! It is for all age ranges, young or old, just bring your robot!

The Robot Party is every Thursday at 8PM ET! If you have a robot, join the hangout on Google+! Be sure to leave a comment on one of the posts so we can add you to our circles for the party. If you don’t have a robot/don’t want to be in the hangout, you can watch the Ustream mirror!

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robotgrrl.com/robotparty
nationalroboticsweek.org

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Uploaded lots of pics from some various Robot Parties last night! Check them out!

April 5, 2012

August 11, 2011

September 22, 2011

More photos coming soon- I pick them out all by hand, so it sometimes takes a while!

SEE YOU AT THE ROBOT PARTY!

Posted in: Robot Party.

January Robot Party Posters!

Posted by Erin, the RobotGrrl on Tuesday, March 13th, 2012

The January Robot Party posters are available now! You can get them here! It’s great to hang on your wall, really colourful and lots of robots to look at!

They’re $7, and the money that I make from them will go towards my Maker Faire travel expenses!

As always, the Robot Party is at 8PM eastern time on Thursday! Bring your robots, share your knowledge and have fun! SEE YA AT THE ROBOT PARTY!

Posted in: Robot Party.