“One day we came in and they had started milking themselves.” [#geekgirl]
[From this NYTimes article] ““It just clicked,” said Susan Borden, Tom Borden’s 24-year-old daughter. “One day we came in and they had started milking themselves.”
Sure enough, on a recent Friday, the Bordens stood watch as cows lined up in front of the closet-size devices; each quietly allowed the machine to wash and scan its underbelly with lasers before attaching mechanical milk cups.
The cows ate the whole time, then moved along when the machine was finished. Nearby, another new device, a Roomba-style robot, pushed feed toward cows who lounged in a pen or lay on straw mats.
“We’re the most disruptive thing in here,” Mr. Borden said.”
In progress — Puff the Magic Dragon #robot #electronics #cchs #geekgirl
geekgirl-motor-drive-shield
Okay so I’ve just started to build Puff; and last night at #hackerspace soldered my first motor drive shield board. In fact my first board ever!@ awesome. Thanks to the crew at Connected Community Hackerspace Melbourne for helping me solder on!
Motor shield from: adafruit Puff’s daddy: Gareth (Let’s Make Robots)
Professor Stuart Moulthrop Public Lecture – FREE – Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize? #games #robots #geekgirl
Make a Better Door: Or, How Does Digital Humanism Humanize?
An interesting image for 2011. …
A player/character in the most recent Portal game is literally locked out of her workplace and replaced by a pair of robots. From this resonant image of the human-computer interface a discussion will emerge to do with broader understandings of the digital humanities, media scholarship, and electronic literature. The focus for this approach will be the question famously posed by Richard Lanham’s: “how do the humanities humanize?”
Professor Darren Tofts (Swinburne University of Technology) will moderate a conversation with Professor Moulthrop following his presentation.
Date: Monday 10th October, 2011 Time: 6.30-8.30 pm. Venue: Village Roadshow Theatrette State Library of Victoria 179 La Trobe Street Melbourne (Conference Centre, Entry 3) Australia
Stuart Moulthrop is Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He is an electronic literature pioneer, both as a theoretician and as a writer, and has published many of articles on the topic of games, network literature and digital media theory. From 1995-99 he was co-editor of the online journal Postmodern Culture and he is a founding board member of the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO). His hypertext Victory Garden (1992) was featured on the front page of the New York Times Book Review in a (now famous) review by American literary critic Robert Coover. Moulthrop is also the author of the hypertext fiction works Reagan Library (1999), and Hegirascope (1995), amongst many others. His recent work engages with digital games and its interface with media theory, electronic writing and scandal. His current work in progress is “Sc4nda1 in New Media,” an Arcade Essay that converges philosophical meditation with an actual video game. It can be accessed at http://pantherfile.uwm.edu/moulthro/index.htm.
Professor Moulthrop is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Life & Social Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology. This visit has also been supported by the School of Media and Communication, RMIT and Sydney University.