Stop robot poverty: i3 Detroit hackerspace fundraiser

Nick from i3 Detroit hackerspace sez, "We all know that robot poverty is a major problem but no one is taking any steps to help combat it...until now. Help i3 Detroit, Detroit's Hackerspace, move to our bigger 8,000 sq/ft location and fight the causes of Robot Poverty. Most robots don't have the basic alcohol they need to survive or the tanks of pneumatic fluid to pressurize appendages. It's everyone's problem and you can help. Watch our informative video and support us via our Kickstarter program."

i3 Detroit v2.0 (Thanks, Nick!)

Previously:

I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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Pneumatic fluid? I think he might mean hydraulic. Or pneumatic gas. Or something.

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Anonymous

Hey, that’s a 2010 overdrive robot! I have one of those! (heh) Go FIRST!!
(usfirst.org)
greywind

The title should be “Stop Robot Poverty” not Piracy!

A little Freudian slip with all the DRM issues?
- Talia
  
  Ah but you see, the robots have resorted to piracy BECAUSE they were impovrished. Seizing ships on the high seas has become the only way they can support their robot families.
  We need to address the root issue to solve the problem.
  - Felton
    
    Wait, are these the robots from the Pirates of the Caribbean ride?
  - cymk
    
    I don’t think even the most impoverished robot would dare go out on the Detroit River, who knows what’s in there.
hadlock

Dallas Makerspace is in final planning stages of moving into a larger space as well, but their PR arm is not as strong in the force:

http://www.dallasmakerspace.com/wiki/Main_Page
http://www.dprg.org/projects/2010-01a/