LoL Shield Projects

August 12, 2010

I’ve recently received a few awesome LoL Shield projects in my inbox, and I thought I should share. The first one was Pete’s awesome white block clock. He painted the inside of a plastic box white, so that the LEDs would have to shine through. It looks amazing, and you should check out the post. [...]

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Next Hope Talk is up

August 6, 2010

I’ve updated my Next Hope circuit bending talk page with some additional info. Basically they’ve released the audio of the talks, and you can get those here. This is a direct link to a high quality MP3 of my talk. You may want to follow along with a PDF of my presentation, or the outline. [...]

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Mid-west Hackerspace Tour

August 5, 2010

I was recently at Maker Faire Detroit, which was a blast. Mitch Altman and I, along with some great volunteers, taught around 1,500 people to solder during the event. It was really great, and I always love Maker Faires. People are always just so excited to be there, and love to make things. Since we [...]

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Circuit Bending Talk and Workshop At Hope

July 10, 2010

Pre-register here. I will be giving a talk on circuit bending at the Next Hope conference this month. The talk will be Friday night at 9:00pm on Saturday. I will then be running a circuit bending workshop immediately afterwards. It will be from 10-ish PM till whenever in the hardware hacking village. To attend the [...]

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AS220 Artist in Residence

June 3, 2010

I really should put this up on my blog I suppose, but I’m the current artist in residence at AS220 for the month of June. What all will I be doing? I’ll be working in the AS220 Labs some days, teaching classes on others, and generally working on my own projects. The point of this [...]

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In Town

May 11, 2010

I’m going to be running an introduction to circuit bending at the MIT museum this coming Monday, May 17. I will be teaching the basics of circuit bending, what to look for, and how to find interesting points. You will then circuit bend a Staples Easy button with the tools provided. You will also have [...]

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Life Meter for the Open Heart

April 7, 2010

At the recent PAX East conference here in Boston, I happened to have three Open Heart kits in my backpack and an Arduino. It hit me suddenly that this should be quickly turned into a life meter. I already had code to run three hearts simultaneously, you can see the post here. So it was [...]

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Soldering Setup for Workshops

April 1, 2010

I’ve been running soldering workshops for a few years now, and along with Mitch Altman, we’ve taught thousands of people to solder. I’ve used everything from $1,000 re-work stations to $1 irons bought off of eBay. I get asked quite often what people should buy for themselves, or what they should be buying for their [...]

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UK Hackerspace Tour ’10

March 30, 2010

Wow, what a crazy month this has been. Mitch Altman and I just got back from a 3-week long hackerspace tour through the UK and Ireland. We even had T-shirts printed (see above), that were designed by the talented Matthew Borgatti. The schedule was crazy. I had planned on blogging while over there, but we [...]

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Three Hearts, one Arduino

January 12, 2010

Today I started playing around with the new Open Heart v2.0 based off a project that came up at 26C3. My friend Alex wanted to run three Open hearts as a life meter on one of his tactical corsets. I loved the idea, and said that it should be possible to do that with just [...]

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