There was actually a Beckman Open House this year, from 11-12 Mar
2005. I took a few shots of the proceedings, including what our group was
working on.
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Beckman Open House
We play separately from everyone else.
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EOH Gatherers
There's a lot of people that turn up for these events.
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Waiting in Line
The most valuable event of the day, visiting the CAVE, always has lines.
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Balloons
They were good and shiny this year, which I appreciated...
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3D Printer Items
The non-pamphlet, non-projector items were printed on the building's 3D printer. It's a cool device.
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Elevator Sign
It's doing a good job of hiding the fact that the elevator has been broken for months.
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TCB Sign
Showing the direction to our own presentations.
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TCB Computer Setup
We're still pretty proud of getting all of the monitors working in this downstairs room...
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Mike Smith
The guy who's really in charge of the building...
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Kids and Balloons
I think they'd rather be on the ceiling.
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Victor
An old college friend, also working in Beckman. It's how life works.
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Low-Light Demo Shot
I at least tried to get some good inside shots during the demos...
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Andrew with Balloons
One of our BI admins gets the wonderful duty of ensuring that the helium doesn't escape.
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Robotics
I'm not entirely sure what was going on here.
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Robotics, II
After all, it's on the other side of the building from me...
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Robotics, III
...so knowledge isn't passed. I should have at least gotten a picture of their lab name.
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3D Projection
Betsy and Alexander look on at their work.
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3D Projection, II
You can better see the 3D here. Yes, there are two images...
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MRI Machine
BIC brought along a non-functional MRI machine as a demo.
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MRI Internals
I didn't go in; the people inside seemed freaked out enough.
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Telescopes
I got a few pictures of the basement, but again I didn't label them properly.
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Bugscope
At least I know which lab this one was.
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Flight Simulator
This one too. Of course, it's an easy one to guess.
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Car Simulator
This is in the basement. You don't want to know how much work it took to get it into the basement.
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Driving Sim Server
Is it any surprise that I had to get a shot of their servers too? It's just in my blood.
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Full Program
Two pages of stuff! And only one of our images.
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Lunch
Behold! They fed those of us working for the open house!
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Displays from Above
Everybody involved is working hard.
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Fleet of School Busses
This was the last time the parking lot was seriously used before they started tearing it up.
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Closed Captions
Now that's a useful sign. (That's me and Rob in the background.)
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EOH, Day 2
Presided over by Al and Catherine this time, apparently.
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Preparing for Demo
Rob, Beth's brother, was with me today, so I got to force him to watch our demos.
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Middle Crowd
Well, fine, it's actually late high schoolers. That's kindof like middle age!
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Demo In Progress
Not bad for the lights being off. Stereo is there to see, there's the other screen, and there's even a couple of monitors worth of displays...
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Immersadesk
I'd never actually played with one of these specifically, even though they're all around my field...
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Immersadesk with Art
It's fun to see what non-tech people can do with technology.
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Newmark
Rob tests his reflexes! Of course, he cheated.
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Physics
The true point of the Civil Engineering area was showin that Physics actually existed. I think.
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Playing with Concrete
This is where Mel should have been hanging out; instead, we got Amanda. Close!
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Concrete in a Petri Dish
This was their actual demo - making little concrete dishes.
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Robot Competition
In Kenny Gym, there was a robot competition going on.
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Fallen Robot
We got to hear a couple of good *thump*s during the few minutes we were there.
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Battlefield
Well, obstacle course. I wish it was Battlebots.
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Boring Robot
This robot, in DCL, wasn't likely to fall over! Boring.
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Electronic Foozball
ACM SigBot contributed the best idea of the Open House, even if it didn't quite work.
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SigMil
SigMil has always been good at making signs.
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SigEmbedded
With an embedded '251'!
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