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
http://www.themusenet.com
Musenet music un-convention, put together by the initiatives of Itay Talgam, and Ayelet Yagil. Uri Levanon, Illit Gilad, Michal Rinot, On Paradise, Eyal Person and Michal Levy all invested a lot of effort in putting it together.
We did the first demonstration of the TangibLaptop project.
TangibLaptop is a collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface inspired by the reacTable.
Zvika and Tal built a Wheelchair Sequencer using distance sensors.
Placing strips on the wheels which are detected by the distance sensors,
Information is sent through a fidget to the laptop, mapping them to midi notes and playing music.
Reflections
http://muse.wiki.zoho.com/Pictures-and-Videos—MuseNet-2007.html
Flickr images:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/musenet
KinnerNet camp is an un-convention that I cannot describe in one blog post,
so I invested more than 8 hours writing the article A look back at Kinnernet 2007 for Regine at the art-tech web site we-make-money-not-art
This is a great GarageGeeks moment I will remember forever.
After demonstrating the GuitarHeroNoid at KinnerNet 2007, we went to the gaming room, sat down, had beer, opened laptops, and start blogging and telling the world about the GuitarHeroNoid building process.
This was a victory moment of geek heroes.
EureKamp is a one-day inspiration camp, which is all about ideas: inspiring, discovering, generating, and sharing ideas in various areas.
The participants of the camp are Israeli creative thinkers – from entrepreneurs to students, with versatile backgrounds – from Internet to art.
The camp’s nature is non-formal, with positive, inspiring and fun atmosphere to allow the participants to meet each other, collaborate and create freely.
The contents of the camp are created by the participants themselves and include various activities designed to stimulate participants to share ideas, brainstorm and try to help each other to come up with a Eureka.
The participation is free, by invitation only and includes full board. In order to participate, you have to contribute to the activities of the camp.
Reflections
http://www.eurekamp.com/reflections
Pictures on Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/eurekamp/
  
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