Major Robot Interactive

The firefly app we've been working on with longtime client / pal Joey Stein made it into the Times. Version 1.0 of the app will be available in the App Store any day now....

How to Talk to Fireflies Most fireflies have their own flash pattern to light up at night. A new device tries to get people talking to them.

We've been having fun playing with ReactJS and Node. Check out the little voting app we whipped up!

It may be your patriotic duty.

Vote for the Next Supreme Court Justice! Normally when there's a vacancy, we have to wait for the President and Senate to pick someone out. Boorrrrring.

"Moore's law has died at the age of 51 after an extended illness."

Moore’s law really is dead this time The chip industry is no longer going to treat Gordon Moore's law as the target to aim for.

Overheard at Major Robot:
"I've only dated *one* LARPer, ok? And it wasn't like he was a LARPer by profession or anything."

Eric, ever the consummate professional, waits till his last day to pull a knife on his coworkers.

Good luck on your next gig Eric! We robots are gonna miss you. (Franklin and Millie still can work here, right?)

Major Robot is looking for a freelance Drupal Developer to lend a hand on various projects over the next couple of months. We're seeking a motivated, easy-to-work-with individual who has both back-end and front-end Drupal experience. Interest in stretching Drupal's bounds, including melding Drupal with MVC philosophies, is a plus.

Email resumes to [email protected]
No phone calls, please.

Requirements
- Individual contractors only - no recruiters
- Must be authorized to work in the United States - 1099 only
- Ability to work remotely

Experience
- At least one year of experience developing and theming for Drupal 7.

Skills
- Building/editing Drupal 7 modules
- Drupal 7 theming
- Highly proficient with PHP
- Proficient with HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Knowledge of Drupal best practices
- Comfort with the MVC design pattern

Time Commitment
We're estimating 10-20 hours per week for at least the next two months.

About Us
Major Robot Interactive is a small team of innovative designers and developers based in the creative hotbed of Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York. We specialize in building and developing Content Management Systems (CMS), exhibit interfaces for museums, and other online interactive experiences. Major Robot’s collaborations with Moey Inc. have been seen in The Children’s Museum of Houston and The New York Historical Society, as well as the New York headquarters of American Express and Google, Inc. We have built solutions for the National Museum of Natural History (with C&G Partners), The Maritime Aquarium (in collaboration with RBH Media), as well as for the New York based non-profits Building Markets, Re:Gender (formerly The National Council for Research on Women), and Hand/Eye Magazine.

Major Robot releases its first module for Drupal! We collaborated with the good folks at Credly to bring their digital badges to the Drupal ecosystem. The idea for the module was sparked by our work together on Q?rius with Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, C&G Partners, and Potion Design.

Award and Display Badges in Drupal New Drupal Module Enables Issue and Display of Achievements on User Profiles The development of Q?rius, a new web site and an exhibit space for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, sparked the idea for the Credly module for Drupal. The experience, designed and developed by C&G Partn…

Set your teleporters to stun.

Scientists Report Finding Reliable Way to Teleport Data It’s not “Star Trek,” but the physicists say they can send quantum information from one electron to another 10 feet away with perfect accuracy.

It's this kind of morning at Robot HQ.

-Yakety Sax- Music Selfyexplanitory :P

Our sentiments exactly.

(FYI, to programmery-types, Git is awesome software that every coder should use).

Check out our good friends and studio-neighbors Urban Matter Inc. They make breathtaking art in public spaces. Silent Lights, their newest creation, is located under the BQE near the Brooklyn Bridge.

Silent Lights is a light installation over a pedestrian pathway that responds to the large amount of traffic noise on the Brooklyn Queens Expressway (BQE) at the intersection of Park Avenue and Navy St.