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Photos From BarBot 2012—One More Night (Tonight) in San Francisco
Snake the Planet: Gaming on Building Facades
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Photos From BarBot 2012—One More Night (Tonight) in San Francisco

[Click on the headline above to see the entire photo gallery; photos by Alasdair Allan, Kipp Bradford, and Brian Jepson]

Windell and Lenore of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories clued me into BarBot 2012, which started last night and continues tonight. If your dream is to have robots pour you mixed drinks, this is where you need to be tonight.

BarBot is a celebration of cocktail culture and man-machine interface. Get a drink from an actual robot. Chat up a snarky electronic bartender. Listen to some graceful tunes being played by robotic music makers. And, after downing your sixth martini, you can finally admit that it’s the geeks who shall inherit the earth.

These robots don’t clean the carpets. What they will do is much, much better. They make you a drink! Let your roommate do the vacuuming. These bots have got better programming on their mind.

Fri/Sat, Mar 2nd-3rd, 2012 – 8pm-12am
21+ with photo ID $15 at door
Venue: pariSoma – 169 11th Street (@ Natoma)
Tickets: Buy them here!

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Snake the Planet: Gaming on Building Facades

Are the screens on your phone, computer, or TV just too small for your gaming needs? Enter Mobile Projection Unit, a group working in interactive urban projection mapping. They loaded up a van with everything needed to map out a playable video game against the facade of a building:

MPU takes the classic mobile phone game 'Snake' and adopts it for the urban canvas. When 'Snake the Planet!" is projected onto buildings, each level is generated individually and based on the selected facade. Windows, door frames, pipes and signs all become boundaries and obstacles in the game. Shapes and pixels collide with these boundaries like real objects. The multi player mode lets players intentionally block each other's path in order to destroy the opponent.

MPU developed “Snake The Planet!” with C++ and Objective-C using OpenFrameworks and the group plans to release the code as open source. [via Hack a Day]