Comments on: dorkbot http://cluster.othermaps.com/dorkbot mediated space etc. Wed, 18 Mar 2009 14:49:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: tim http://cluster.othermaps.com/dorkbot/comment-page-1#comment-26 tim Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=90#comment-26 thought about this a lot. lovely to see a production model. the trick i was thinking of would be to have timed-opacity paint ... or better still something that is pressure sensitive so when people/cars go over it it gets revealed. avoids the speed requirement to a greater extent. better yet, build the "bots" into Nikes and deploy as usual. thought about this a lot. lovely to see a production model.

the trick i was thinking of would be to have timed-opacity paint … or better still something that is pressure sensitive so when people/cars go over it it gets revealed. avoids the speed requirement to a greater extent.

better yet, build the “bots” into Nikes and deploy as usual.

]]> By: darrell http://cluster.othermaps.com/dorkbot/comment-page-1#comment-27 darrell Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000 /?p=90#comment-27 Part of their schtick (?) is to invite members of the public to do the remote controlling of the robot -- they have great stills of a group of girl scouts defacing some public space ;-) They seem to have run into the classic hacker problem that people seem to want them to start selling prefab kits for the robots, and to turn iSee into an open source API thing, wheras they (apart from not having the time) aren't really into that -- they want to get on with doing new things (understandably). I've always seen there stuff as activist art rather than tech projects. Shame tehre isn't someone else who wants to do all the hard work of productisation... Part of their schtick (?) is to invite members of the public to do the remote controlling of the robot — they have great stills of a group of girl scouts defacing some public space ;-)

They seem to have run into the classic hacker problem that people seem to want them to start selling prefab kits for the robots, and to turn iSee into an open source API thing, wheras they (apart from not having the time) aren’t really into that — they want to get on with doing new things (understandably). I’ve always seen there stuff as activist art rather than tech projects. Shame tehre isn’t someone else who wants to do all the hard work of productisation…

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