Christine and I spoke at the North Bay Python conference (June 29-30, 2024) about cocktail robotics.
The talk title: Exploring the intersection of humanity and technology in a hedonistic context with cocktail robotics
Cocktail Robotics provides an opportunity to explore an entertaining mix of technology, computer human interaction, art, and performance. We provided a brief history with potentially amusing stories, and an exploration of using Python to control robots.
We had slides and stories about robots of the past — both our own and those of other people — as well as an overview of my attempt to create a “hello world” of cocktail robotics with all of the complexities of even a rather simple open hardware project.
I did something new for this talk: I actually wrote out every word I planned to say. At least so far, every word is written down. I’m not finished with the talk, and things could become a bit looser, but I enjoyed this process.
We had a lot of slides, with a number set to automatically advance in 1-2 seconds each.