DorkbotPDX 0x01 will be taking place on March 30th at the PNCA Graduate Studios building (1432 NW Johnson St.). Doors will be opening up around 6 – show up early if you want to meet other dorks or find out what makes us tick. The lineup of speakers is: Cathy Swider - Using LEGO Mindstorm NXT robots with students to create art Ward Cunningham - What If Bacteria Designed Computers? David Frech - Bootstrap yourself into conviviality by writing your own Forth Talk Descriptions: Using LEGO Mindstorm NXT robots with students to create art.

So, it occured to me that after soliciting everyone in DorkbotPDX to post the announcement for this to their blogs, I failed to do so myself. Bad self! So, here it is, the official announcement for the first ever DorkbotPDX event: Come join DorkbotPDX, people doing strange things with electricity, for our inaugural event at Vendetta on June 24th at 5pm. If you’re a hacker, painter, engineer or sculpture, musician or maker you’ll fit right in.

So, just a quick update to let everyone know why I’ve disappeared and have been unable to find even a few spare seconds to update the blog. I’ve been just a wee bit busy. Last month I attended OSCON and helped put on FOSCON II. Both of which were awesome and exhausting. I met a lot of great people and learned about some interesting things. Hopefully I’ll find time to dig in a bit deeper on some of it.