This Friday evening before Maker Faire New York:
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Emotional Hazards That Lurk Far From The Uncanny Valley
From Roger Cheng on the Hackaday blog:
Emotional Hazards That Lurk Far From The Uncanny Valley
A web search for “Uncanny Valley” will retrieve a lot of information about that discomfort we feel when an artificial creation is eerily lifelike. The syndrome tells us a lot about both human psychology and design challenges ahead. What about the opposite, when machines are clearly machines? Are we all clear? It turns out the answer is “No” as [Christine Sunu] explained at a Hackaday Los Angeles meetup.
When we build a robot, we know what’s inside the enclosure. But people who don’t know tend to extrapolate too much based only on the simple behavior they could see. As [Christine] says, people “anthropomorphize at the drop of the hat” projecting emotions onto machines and feeling emotions in return. This happens even when machines are deliberately designed to be utilitarian. iRobot was surprised how many Roomba owners gave their robot vacuum names and treated them as family members. A similar eruption of human empathy occurred with Boston Dynamics video footage demonstrating their robot staying upright despite being pushed around.
Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago on June 12th
The next Hardware Happy Hour (3H) Chicago is Tuesday, June 12th:
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Happy-Hour-3H-Chicago/events/251388578/
Hope to see you there!
664 W Lake St Chicago, IL 60661
Hardware meetup tonight in SF
Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic (HDDG) is tonight at SupplyFrame in San Francisco featuring talks by Roy Jui Liang Hung, Tanya Fish (Pimoroni) and Jason Kridner (BeagleBoard.org Foundation):
This HDDG should be an awesome crowd as makers from all over are in the SF Bay Area this weekend for Maker Faire.
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Developers-Didactic-Galactic/events/250456428/
(look for our Drew Fustini in purple)
Can’t make it? SupplyFrame will have LIVE STREAM starting at approximately 7:00pm US PDT:
Enjoy delicious food (that is unlikely to be pizza) and beverages while listening to fascinating technical talks by these crazy and creative engineers.
Tanya Fish – Explaining Electronics to the Unitiated
Roy Jui Liang Hung – Mastering Animal Mechanics with the 3D Printer
Jason Kridner – Simplifying Hardware Design with System-in-Package Tech#HDDG LIVE STREAM –> http://bit.ly/2sPgORW
Tanya Fish (@tanurai) has been working at Pimoroni for the past couple of years, and is on a mission to explain how all their boards work to a wider audience. Hear her discuss the issues of explaining the “invisible magic” to complete beginners at electronics, and how the school system in the UK ill-prepares students for anything beyond building a simple circuit.
Roy is founder of Perkūnas Studio and an artist who’s passionate on tinkering. He first learned about 3Dprint in 2011, teaching himself how to master the machine. He is the most renowned 3DP expert in Taiwan. Roy will be talking about the process he used to make his incredible 3D sculptures, which he will be showing off at Maker Faire this weekend. He will even bring one of them to HDDG!
Jason Kridner is the co-founder and board member of the BeagleBoard.org foundation, and spends a lot of time defining strategy for growing open platform ecosystems. Jason will be talking about simplifying hardware design with system-in-package technology.
After the talks, there will be demos, community announcements, and socializing. If you’d like to give a 2 minute demo/ community announcement, please see the organizers when you arrive to get set up.
A community announcement includes looking for a project partner, a job, offering a project/ job, the announcement of your startup launch, your Crowdfunding pitch, etc.
We’re looking forward to seeing you Thursday, May 17th, at 6:30p!
~Jasmine, Stephen, Sophi, Matt, and AlekCode of Conduct (https://hackaday.io/project/28093-code-of-conduct)
Bring-A-Hack is Sunday, May 20th, at BJs in San Mateo
#bringahack Bay Area is this Sunday evening, May 20th! Please join us for this wonderful tradition that Jeri Ellsworth started:
Sunday evening, May 20th, at BJ’s in San Mateo, 6pm to 12am
2206 Bridgepoint Parkway
San Mateo, CA 94404
650-931-2990
Check out last year for some inspiration:
Photos of Bring-A-Hack after Maker Faire Bay Area 2017
Dorkbot PDX is tonight at Crtl-H PDX hackerspace
Didn’t get enough hardware hacking fun at Teardown this past weekend? Dorkbot PDX is 7:00pm TONIGHT (Monday, May 14th) at Ctrl-H PDX hackerspace!
DorkbotPDX
The address for Ctrl-H is:
7608 N Interstate
Portland, OR 97217
Check out the Meetup event page for more information and look for our Drew Fustini in purple!
https://www.meetup.com/CTRL-H/events/wfktgpyxhbsb/
Part hackathon, part geek social, these biweekly meetings are a time for you to come join others for insight, inspiration or just insanity.
Bring your toys for others to see, or come see what others have been painstakingly chipping away at in their spare time.
Whether it’s code or chips, hacking of all sorts is encouraged. But we also like to hear your crazy ideas, so please come join us and bring your willingness to share your brilliance.
We’ll be the kids with all the coolest stuff on the table. Hope to see you there.
p.s. This event is open to everyone, dork or robot. No ^H membership is required to attend.
This Weekend: Hackaday x Tindie Meetup At Bay Area Maker Faire
Maker Faire Bay Area is this weekend, and the Hackaday and Tindie crew are getting ready to jack some cupcake cars. The Bay Area Maker Faire is one of the greatest gatherings of…
via This Weekend: Hackaday x Tindie Meetup At Bay Area Maker Faire. — Hackaday
Hardware meetup this Thursday in SF
The next Hardware Developers Didactic Galactic (HDDG) is this Thursday, April 26th, at SupplyFrame’s office in San Francisco:
HDDG 29: Game Night!
Enjoy excellent yummy food and beverages while listening to talks by these game designing engineers.
Richard Hogben – Mixed Reality Smartphone Game
Adelle Lin – Multiplayer Games in Public SpacesHDDG is excited to host Adelle Lin this month. Adelle Lin (http://touchtech.io/ and http://adelleninja.com/) recently moved to San Francisco from New York and is an engineer at Intel. A lover of indie-games, she started building hardware so that she could create games that connect people in space. She has worked on projects shown at Paris Fashion Week, Play NYC, Come Out and Play, PlayTimesSquare, AR World Expo, Burning Man, and Maker Faire.
Developing games for public spaces is challenging and even more so when you introduce hardware components. Adelle will talk through various options to consider through the lens of games that she built for PlayTimesSquare (Symphonic Picnic) and PlayNYC (Star Catcher VR) – networking, hardware specs, interfaces, installation.
We are equally excited to welcome Richard Hogben (https://hackaday.io/rich ). Richard Hogben lives in San Francisco and works as a front end engineer at Supplyframe. His previous projects include a flying Hasselblad medium format film camera. Richard is currently organizing a project on Hackaday.io to build and assemble an Open NSynth Super synthesizer.
At HDDG, Rich will talk about a recent game that he designed and presented at the Hackaday Superconference. The game is called Pinned, and it is a mixed reality smartphone game with Unreal Engine and SteamVR room scale tracking.
After the talks, there will be demos, community announcements, and socializing. If you’d like to give a 2 minute demo/ community announcement, please see the organizers when you arrive to get set up.
A community announcement includes looking for a project partner, a job, offering a project/ job, the announcement of your startup launch, your Crowdfunding pitch, etc
https://www.meetup.com/Hardware-Developers-Didactic-Galactic/events/249704120/
Dublin Unconference Roundup: The Topics That are Hot Right Now
the Hackaday Community from across Ireland and other parts of Europe poured into the performance hall at Dublin’s Project Arts Centre for a massive collection of talks.
via Dublin Unconference Roundup: The Topics That are Hot Right Now
Workshops Announced For Hackaday Belgrade
Hackaday is hosting a full conference in Belgrade, Serbia, on 26 May. Today we’re excited to announce the workshops that will take place at Hackaday Belgrade. 419 more words
OSH Park 