It’s sad when lovers no longer get a charge out of each other…

[Tusind Takk @mprados!]

You know, I really could never dance for another. . .

A bit o’ background from IsraeliGuitar (on youtube)

I Wanted for a long time to upload a video of me improvising with my guitar and the Kaossilator.

Everything I did was very boring as the loop in the Kaossilator is quite short. You can’t really play any chord progressions, only the same chord over and over and over and over.

I tried to think of a song that has a single chord and found Groove is in the heart. It’s the same chord and the same bass line all through the song.

It wasn’t easy making 7 minutes of the same chord not boring or anoying, but I think I did a good job.

[Thanks @KOduckgirl]

Josh Ellingson, the superlative artist responsible for some of my favorite robot art (including this preliminary version of the RoboGames poster he did last year), has a super colossal art show in Second Life on May 23rd.

The Museum Of Robots is putting this on and it looks like it will be tons of virtual fun!

Bots, Bugs, and Beasts
the art of Joshua Ellingson
Opening Reception May 23rd, 9am (PST)
(my Second Life name is “Grover Zelin”)

I am wondering quietly how refreshments work Second Life. Then again, if I were really into these newfangled online community thingies, the only thing I would have in them would be a lawn so I could tell the damn kids to get off of it.

Yeah we’re late top the party on this one, but,Makerbot turns to the dark side:

Go see Makerbot at MakerFaire! Buy MakerBots! Yay 3D printing!

Yes, yes yes yes:

Thanks @thinkgeek!

Older, but still awesomely executed:

And how. Much animatronic lusciousness here.

[via @koduckgirl and Digg! Thanks Tryntje!

Have you always wanted to be part of the world domination “in” crowd? Do you get your celebrity gossip from Popular Mechanics? Does five gallons of motor oil, three car batteries and a set of alligator clips turn you on?

Boy do we have a party for you. Join ComBots, Laughing Squid and the Robotics Society of America for a night out to benefit this year International RoboGames. Guzzle tasty beverages made by your favorite robot bartenders, see works in progress and other junk made out of art, and hobnob with some of the leading lights of robotic society.

Get a martini from a robot!
Buy great robot art!
Drive a combat robot!
Get a robot-made roasted mashmallow (made w/a flame thrower!)

image courtesy Scott Beale.

Door charge is a sliding scale, all proceeds go to making RoboGames 2009 better than ever! Give til it hurts. We do.

Follow http://twitter.com/robogames for the latest updates.

Saturday, May 9, 2009, 7:00pm-2am
Secret Location