Welcome to Silicon Barrio Silicon Barrio was founded in 1984 to create cool technology hacks for East Austin schools and festivals. The group evolved into the renowned Robot Group. Mission Statement. Help Us!

1993, F.R.Rice Elementary School kids in Austin, Texas video teleconference with collegues in Palo Alto (Silicon Valley). They shared detailed design projects and documentation over the link.

Kids at F.R.Rice Elementary School hangin' in CyberSpace

Silicon Barrio is assisting the Austin League of Tejano Artists (ALTA) in creating cultural Web content for the Austin area.

Mas outreach en el barrio de East Austin

Burro, un robot bien amable, tambien llamado Varmint.

Creatura, the first Chicano Robot.

Rattler, A snake locomotion device.

Portada Aztlán

Tech Art site under construction.

Petra's Pecado the luminous smash hit from East Austin.

Hang with the Spray Artists at ArtCrime.

Check out the Austin League of Tejano Artists (ALTA)

The ProtoAndroid is the culmanation of years of brainstorming of the original Silicon Barrio founders and the Robot Group.

Silicon Barrio educational outreach projects by David Santos designed to demonstrate far fetched concepts include a boat that sails directly into the wind, a rain powered vehicle, flying spheres, the ProtoAndroid, and a flapping wing flying machine that runs on legs to take off. A current project is a ball like sailing device.

Silicon Barrio is sponsored in part by the City of Austin under the auspices of the Austin Arts Commission.

Thanks for flying PolyCosmos. Join us again.

Comment to santos@88net.net

The Computers, Robotics, and Artists Society of Houston (CRASH) is a sister organization to Silicon Barrio and the Robot Group.