Hi All, this on monday at the greenbench- 'scuse x-posts
cheers /julian **Toothbrushes of Peception** * What do the earliest perceiving organisms and simple robots have in common? Talk and Workshop at The Green Bench 14th December 2009 5.30 - 9.00 pm Upstairs at the United Friendly Societies Building 67 Guyton Street Whanganui Mike Paulin Associate Professor of Zoology at Otago University will give a talk about the beginings of perception and the evolution of the first animals and nervous systems over 500 million years ago, relating this to emergent behaviour in simple robots. He is joined by robotics educator Andrew Hornblow to lead a bristlebot workshop. Bring an old sloping bristle toothbrush and learn how to turn it into a small fast moving robot. Entry $5 + Bristlebot kits $5 + Greenbench soup kitchen $5 Don't forget your sloping bristle toothbrush! read more: http://greenbench.org/project/toothbrushes _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
