To me, 2010 looks so attractive in type. All those curves and lines. Start the year off right, and go take a look at these very interesting presentations today. And if you want to get rid of holiday cookies and candy and even fruitcake, bring them by and share it with the crew:

What: dorkbot-nyc meeting
When: 06 January, 2010, 7-9pm
Where: Location One, Greene St. between Canal and Grand
$$: $FREE$

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The 1g6s-th dorkbot-nyc meeting will take place at 7pm on Wednesday,
January 6th, 2010 at Location One in SoHo.

The meeting is free and open to the public. Please bring snacks to
share. YUMM.

We’re always looking for (and playing) more dorkbot theme songs! Bring
or email one and we’ll play it at the meeting.

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Featuring the zygomorphic and highly elongated:

John Saunders: Home Shop CNC Machining in NYC and Rapid Prototyping
Technical developments over the past decade have revolutionized the
home/hobby CNC and fabrication world. I’ll discuss this progression and
give an overview of how to get started – including the CNC Mill, CNC
controller, software and CAD/CAM. I will also discuss the practical
capabilities for rapid prototyping and design-for-manufacturing. Lastly,
I’ll offer some tips and tricks on operating within the confines of an
NYC apartment, limited by space and noise.
http://www.nyccnc.com

Natalie Campbell: SP Weather Station
Co-founded by artists Natalie Campbell and Heidi Neilson in 2007, SP
Weather Station is an interdisciplinary project that collects weather
data, hosts a Guest Lecture Series, and organizes weather-related
publications, events, and exhibitions. As an informal umbrella
organization, SPWS invites participation from many other artists,
groups, and weather enthusiasts, while maintaining a rooftop station
base in Long Island City, New York. Natalie Campbell will introduce some
recent projects sampling weather data and the station’s ongoing research
interests. More information about the station is online at:
http://spweatherstation.net

V. Adán & D. Repetto: Chiplotle — now that’s a spicy plotter library!
Pen plotters were some of the first computer-controlled physical output
devices. They were used from the 1960s through the early 1990s for
rendering architecture and engineering drawings, cheezy business plots,
and occasionally “plotter art.” High quality, working pen plotters are
currently available online for < $100. It’s time for a pen plotter
renaissance! Chiplotle is an HPGL (Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language)
Python API that provides control of grungy old pen plotters with shiny
new laptops. The Chiplotle library implements and extends the HPGL
plotter control language. It supports all the standard HPGL commands as
well as our own more complex “compound HPGL” commands, implemented as
Python classes. Chiplotle also provides direct control of your
HPGL-aware hardware via a standard usb<->serial port interface. We’ll
bring in a couple vintage pen plotters, demostrate how to use Chiplotle,
and show some of the art and music being made with pen plotters today.
http://chiplotle.org

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