BitBadge eksperimental @ HONF

We nicely arrived in Yogyakarta for cellsbutton#04, international media art festival, and already started a first diy makeaway in front of the HONF office. I planned to do the BitBadge, DIY reflow soldering, but sadly i produced the PCBs scaled down a little bit and the mask for the screen-printing doesnt fit. noooooooo….
But anyway, we still tried and soldered the LEDs by hand, one-by-one, and Dhomas Kampret was really doing a great job on his 2 color BitBadge (yes it does allow mixing).

We also tried the reflow soldering later, we first painted the solder paste onto the desired pads, placed the LEDs and then cooked the stuff on a little gas stove. works niiiiiiiice!

micro_noise is played and heard all over the world…

thanks to xname, who made some micronoise during the piksel festival, more people could hear the great soundz of it during a otolab competition in italy. and they even won first prize at the Italian competition for electronic drums hacking it with lights!!

see the video on you tube:

OpenTheremin backen im AudioDock

Anlässlich des Aperos zum Semesterbeginn der Fachschule für Tontechnik ffton haben wir spontan ein SMD-Reflow-Soldering-Mini-Theremin makeaway gemacht. Wie so oft ist auch nach dem die guten Häppchen und tiefgründigen Talks längst vorüber waren noch bis tief in die Nacht gewerkelt worden. Alle Theremins haben trotz handgeätzten Prints auf Anhieb funktioniert.

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Zu später Stunde hat sich auch Mario noch ans Werk gemacht.

Laser Workshop for Dynamic Days

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Die SGMK hat wieder mal einen Workshop an den Dynamic Days im Dynamo durchgeführt. Während einer Woche löten und spielen die Jugendlichen mit Lasern und kriegen erste Erfahrungen mit elektronischen Spielereien. Dieses Jahr zum ersten Mal konnten sie eine Lasershow bauen, an dem sie sogar ihre MP3-Player anschliessen können und über den Sound ihre Laser-Visuals beeinflussen.

SGMK is Installation on Shift-Festival ‘09

Four days of intense soldering and personal exchange on the SGMK diy makeaway base. We were located in the exposition hall and the tables with the people working looked like some kind of art installation.
diy makeaway installation on Shift Festival

Shift was a great thing! Good vibes and lot’s of soldering this year.
For the first time we soldered the 1pixel with microphone and the Open.Theremin. Both were a big success. Some people spent hours working on their gadget – especially for the SMD Theremin. So much better was the moment when it finally came to life.
People working on pixels and open-theremins

Particularly thrilling were also the spontaneous 15 Kilo-Volt experiments by Connradin and Geri.
15kV !




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