GarageGeeks Blog

Like ninjas battling on stage, Bre Pettis and Tal Chalzin will volley projects demonstrations back and forth. From guitar player robots to machines that vomit plastic skulls, the presentation will include a mix of projects they’ve worked on and that have been worked on at the GarageGeeks, NYCResistor and beyond. This presentation will both thrill and repulse you with the possibilities that have recently emerged in the diy hacker technology space.

more information about the event

We are happy to invite you to IMAGinE (read: Imagine in IMAGE),
an informal, non-commercial gathering of like-minded people in the fields of animation, computer vision, 3D graphics, image processing, visualizations, augmented reality, video and photography.

IMAGinE is one of the unconference events initiated and inspired by Yossi Vardi, which include Kinnernet, GeekCon and MuseNet. As an unconference, the content is created by the event participants, so we depend on YOU to propose discussions, workshops, project displays and any crazy mash-up that comes to mind and can drive technologists and creative types to innovate, learn and inspire.

IMAGinE 2010 will be held on Friday, January 8^th 2010, at the Tiltan College of Design in Haifa.

The event wiki is located at http://imagine2010.pbworks.com, and registration is at http://imagine2010.eventbrite.com.

facebook event at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=210873607370

See you there!

The IMAGinE organizing team: Dror Gill, Liad Nishlis, Erez Yissacharov and Yossi Vardi.

MuseNet is a music/technology camp in the spirit of Kinnernet (and Foo camp):
Good people, business-free environment and participant-generated agenda.

The GarageGeeks took part as un-convention core members and also created two rooms:

The Live Jam Room

The Musical gaming room. with lots of thanks to Media Game shop

Reflections

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IDEAS, TECHNOLOGY, PEOPLE - CREATING THE FUTURE OF MEDIA
May 23 - Shfaim, Israel

DISRUP.TV is an un-conference  intents to bring together Israeli and global Technology, content and creative talents that are taking part in creating the future of TV and media for sharing knowledge, exploring the opportunities and to spark new ideas about how TV and Video will change us and we will change TV.  It is aimed for people who are  in the conjunction of Media, Content, Creative and Technology.

Reflections

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/disruptv/

ROBOTS, GADGETS AND
OTHER ANIMALS: TOMORROW’S TECHNOLOGY IN DAILY LIFE
Let us examine how tomorrow’s technology
will affect our daily life: robots, advanced
computers, electronic toys and just plain cool
gadgets.

Our made man, Ohad Eder Pressman reached to Speaker level at DLD* 2008, lecturing about connecting the Physical and Digital worlds.

Digital gets Physical session include Kati London, Julian Bleecker (NearFuture), Neri Oxman, Ohad Eder-Pressman and hosted by Kevin Slavin

watch the full video at sevenload

http://de.sevenload.com/videos/kHp4S78/DLD08-Day-3-Digital-gets-physical/sliderPage/2

DLD conference is a blast of sharing ideas, thoughts and vision.
It was a great opportunity to meet GarageGeeks friends from all over the world:

Pabls Holman the international hacker, Digital Dan Dubno , check out their great presentation at DLD*

http://en.sevenload.com/videos/bAoG482/DLD08-Day-2-Educate-experiment/sliderPage/2

JB Jean-Baptiste Labrune who creates our next generation of interfaces, Régine Debatty editor of the art/tech blog http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com

Michael Reinboth from Compost records, Munich, kindly had a meeting with us and we discussed about various ways to integrate the GarageGeeks activities with the music industry in Germany.

Cathy Brooks from Six Apart and Loic Le Meur invited the GuitarHeroNoid to perform at LeWeb3 conference France.

Our man Tal Chalozin, the heronoid Puppeteer, went there and presented the garageGeeks activities.

Here is a video of the show

Mr Jeff Pulver invited the human-size robot playing guitar hero aka the GuitarHeroNoid to preform in VON Boston 2007 (Video Over the Net) conference in Boston.

Tal Chalozin and Yuval Tal have improved the robot version 2, adding some more features like the Controller-Controller and the Penis Guitar Holder.

Pictures from VON

Tal Chalozin was invited by wired magazin to wired NextFest convention to show the Real Pac-Man project.

Here is Tal’s report from LA:

Now that the show is over i’m back to life.

Short brief of my last 5 days:

We landed in LA on Monday, and had Tue and Wed to build up the installation.
And so we did.
We spent most of the time on running back and forth from the hotel to the convention center trying to get everything right.

I have to say that, That NextFest is the biggest production I’ve ever seen in my life.
It was amazing to take part in it.

The show was divided into server pavilions, we were part of the “Future of Game”.
 
As apposed to the shows that I’ve seen before, here everyone was super professional.
I was the only one with out any commercial/artistic agenda to promote. (besides the Garage of course)

Some other exhibits next to me was:
- killacycle - the world fastest electric motorcycle (operated from 990 LiOn batteries) -
  on the first test drive, broadcasting national, crashed. BTW, the driver wasn’t wearing any helmet.
- the famous multi-touch wall
- the “Furminator” - a terminator first-person-pinball (by a group from german)
- TFT Tennis (future version of pong)
- an amazing 3D printer

and A LOT more

I was amazing.
a lot of press covering, a lot of people and unfortunately, a lot of kids.

The first half of the first two days was closed for education.
I’ve never in my life seen so many kids running and touching everything in there way.
I way very exhausting, but ok.
Just until, one kid sneaked into the pacMan “arena”, thought that the pacMan was a football and kicked the hell out of him.

On the first minute I didn’t know what to do,
when I’ve seen the my pacMan fly, lands back and spreading some pieces around.
It was amazing Kodak moment.
So I spent the rest of the day trying to get it back together.

Now he’s fine, and still a bit limping…
The show ended yesterday, and as i’ve said, I’m back to life.

that’s about it.
More stories soon. 

Tal

The GeekCon un-convention get-together is a creative gathering happening with a goal to form a critical mass of technically oriented creative talented people that will think up, create and deploy ideas. Or it’s a short summer camp for geeks…  Take your pick.

Reflections:

Images at Flikr tagged with geekcon2007