This is an interest group about robots. This includes toys, gadgets, robotics and tools. We also assemble and share stories, projects, accessories and other activities to help promote our fascination. You should join if you are just interested in robots even if you don't actually own one yet. But if you own a robot from a Sony Aibo to a Roomba--come and enjoy the camaraderie of others.

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone) using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc.

… The Legosmeister NYC Meetup connects educators, parents, and kids interested in using Legos for imaginative play, educational purposes, and pure fun through workshops, playdates, and parties: Lego Duplos + Block Building: 2 yrs - 6 yrs;  Legos Regular: 5 yrs - 12 yrs; Lego Robotics: 8 yrs - 18 yrs

What is your New Year's Resolution this year? Do you want to stop putting off the things you've always wanted to do and finally start living in 2012? This is a brand new self-improvement group for individuals who want to create something awesome with other intelligent, genuine, compassionate, creative, motivated people. This group is for you if: - you are sick and tired of working (or searching) for a job in a field you have no passion for that expects you to be a politically correct, PG-13 robo …

Mystery Science Theater 3000 is gone, but the riffing lives on! Get together with your fellow MSTies to watch horrible, horrible movies getting the mockery they so richly deserve. For the unitiated: "Rifftrax" is a series of downloadable film commentaries from MST3K head writer/host Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy (voice of Tom Servo), and Bill Corbett (2nd voice of Crow T. Robot). It's basically MST3K minus the skits. This Meetup gets together to watch new Rifftrax movies as well as old MST3K reruns …

Colossus in 2012! Discuss, Learn, Implement, our Silicon Overlords!

Everybody grabs some food (you have to pay for your own, sorry), grabs a seat, and talks tech. There's no particular focus other than meeting some new people and having some interesting conversations. Credit goes out to James Dennis and Sean O'Connor for starting the first "tech breakfast" in DUMBO: http://www.meetup.com/DUMBO-Tech-Breakfast/

Join together with other BuzzFeed enthusiasts to hone your buzz skills and increase your power. Maybe you'll join together to create a giant robot that will rule the Earth! Or talk about how to make awesome web content. Help out by organizing a time and place to meet in your hood. Email us at buzzmeets@buzzfeed.com with questions and to ask for a starter kit.

Are you a woman* who loves programming and has been searching for a similar bunch of ladies to eat cupcakes and discuss code with? Are you happier discussing Ruby** than rubies over coffee? If so, you’ve come to the right place! We meet at least once a month to hack on projects, give casual 5-minute lightning talks, ask all of our technical questions, and toss around ideas together. It's a great way to make new friends, and to bounce ideas off each other to keep improving our coding skills. Thin …

… Open to a variety of disciplines: academics advertising professionals independent researchers computer scientists digital anthropologists linguists designers We'll meet every month to talk about the relationship between semiotics and digital technology, covering topics around: traditional semiotics computational semiotics computational linguistics user experience interface design interaction design information architecture robotics/intelligent machines human-computer interaction

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, and volumetric 3D displays and cameras are taking us. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware h …

These are not your typical software engineering events.   Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend.  Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python.    We reach out to the entire New York metropol …

Hudson County's newest hackerspace. Check us out at 38 Jackson St. in Hoboken or online at Makerbar.com. Tweets: @Makerbar IRC: #makerbar on irc.freenode.net mailing list: http://groups.google.com/group/MakerBar

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3 Day Startup is an entrepreneurship education program designed for university students with an emphasis on learning by doing. The idea is simple: start tech companies over the course of three days. Our philosophy is all about learning by doing. This approach leads to tangible success stories of student entrepreneurship: 600 students participating in 3 Day Startup events in 4 countries have given rise to 14 companies collectively raising $4 million in investment

"A silky euphoria, sublime textures of neon light woven through a madd rush of kaleidoscopic sparks and manic speed, draped over a relentless, thumping consonance, connecting us as 1 joyful, beating, organism"           -- trance, def.  NEW YORK, ARE YOU READY TO TRANCE INTO 2011? We're gonna be bustin' out into 2011 with parties and events that'll move and exhilarate you with the most uplifting and danceable progressive trance in nyc. What could be better than the sublime music, the positiv …