diymakeaway

BitBadge eksperimental @ HONF

dusjagr — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 05:56:53 +0000

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…

dusjagr — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 09:30:46 +0000

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

gaudi — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:19:07 +0000

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.

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

Laser Workshop for Dynamic Days

dusjagr — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:56:51 +0000

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

gaudi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:31 +0000

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.

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.

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

BEAM light-seeker @ walcheturm

dusjagr — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:16:49 +0000

Während diese Woche Theo Jansen’s Strandbiester Zürich belagern, fand im Walcheturm ein Workshop für Schüler aller Stufen statt.

Wir bauten Käfer-Roboter, mit Sinn, Hirn und Bein.

# Theo Jansen und seine Strandbiester in Zürich

Realisiert wurde das Projekt vom Migros-Kulturprozent in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Kunstraum Walcheturm

diy in DIY

dusjagr — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 14:36:17 +0000

spontanous soldering action during cellsbutton#03, Yogyakarta

dusjagr — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 09:36:21 +0000

I am constantly carrying around my mini/micro-diymakeaway lab, so whenever there is an opportunity we can start to DIY and have a spontanous workshop….

like on Sunday night in a posh club for the cellsCHILL evening at vino bar

Visit to Yakkum @ cellsbutton

dusjagr — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 18:27:36 +0000

Today, during cellsbutton#03, we have been visiting the Yakkum Rehabilitation Center in Yogyakarta and did different workshops with them. Next to some music, some video experiments and a GPS-walk we have done a diy makeaway and built some micro_noise. and we finished with an awesome jamsession. maybe there is gonna be a new noise-art collective in Yakkum! …stay tuned.

Thanks to the help of Andrej and Bintang we could help them making nice little noise toys in cool boxes.

preparing for the diy makeaway for cellsbutton#03

dusjagr — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:36:41 +0000

collecting the parts, heating the soldering irons.

and getting into the mood…..

while Bintang is rocking the gmoettophon