Meetup
Gamelan, Pringles and Toys: November 2015
We had a fantastic session this month, with Charles Matthews, Tom Fox and Tasos Stamou showing their work or running workshops. There was our best crowd so far and it was great to see everyone joining in, having a great time and make plenty of racket on all the noise makers that were there. If you missed this one, you’ll definitely want to catch the next in January which will be just as much fun!
Read MoreHacking Session: Sunday 15th Nov 2015
After a bit of thought we’ve decided to try an experiment.
Our end-of-the-month sessions are turning more and more into workshops, so there’s not really the opportunity to get any actual hacking done on our projects.
To address this we’ve decided to have ‘Hacking Sessions’ on the second Sunday of each month which will be a chance for you guys to bring your own projects along and work on them. This’ll hopefully give us all a bit more of a chance to get help from each other and make progress on our projects.
Read MoreDiddley Bows: Sunday 25th October 2015
We had another great session this month with some new members and hackoustic stalwarts making all sorts of racket and mess in the hackspace. We ran workshops on the Epsilonograph and diddley bow making as well as messing around with nail violins, capacitative sensor MIDI controllers and and a new automated glockenspiel.
Read MoreCapacitative MIDI: Sunday 27th September 2015
This month progress was made on the capacitative touch interfaces for our MIDI controller and enhanced glockenspiel, and we had a visit from Charles Matthews, who introduced us to his Augmented Gamelan.
Read MoreHighlights from Turbine Festival: Sat 25th July 2015
With an estimated 28,000 people through the doors of Tate Modern, 8,000 people more than a usual Saturday in July, the Turbine Festival 2015 is by far the largest and most successful event we’ve ever participated in. We had so much fun meeting people of all ages, and sharing with them our fascination in sound through weird and wonderful…
Read MoreSolenoid City: Sun 28th June 2015
We had some more fun with solenoids this week – Tim brought the prototype for the next iteration of the automated glockenspiel which you can see in the video and image below. It’s going to be ready for the Turbine Festival at the Tate, so watch this space…
Read MoreGround Control: Sun 31st May 2015
This little critter is Maplin’s Bone Conductor Transducer offering for not so cheap at £9.99! [ Maplin ] It is a small, sturdy and relatively weighty device, due to a metal body housing two coils and a metal actuator. The metal plate photographed above in between the screws is a moving actuator, which induces vibration into any surface…
Read MoreIn the Darkness! Sun 26th April 2015
Have you ever heard the sound of fishing line? Probably not! That’s why we are here. Our purpose is to present to you materials like never before. You can hear the Fishing line as it stretches due to the weight of the hanging blade. The recording was made using our Frame Project. Below is a high…
Read MoreLasers with OptoNoise: Sun 29th Mar. 2015
This Sunday, we met with Stanley Lewry to experiment with the sound of Lasers. The recordings above are made using Lasers being put through engraved/grooved or painted on spinning discs mounted on a motor shaft. Light through the discs are picked up by a transducer into an amplifier for your listening pleasure. 🙂 You can…
Read MoreSlinkies: Sun 22nd Feb. 2015
This meetup, we experimented with the sound of Slinkies [ Thanks to Faraz ]. It is amazing such alien, other-worldly sounds can be obtained from such otherwise ordinary object. We recorded the sound of the slinkies using our frame construction, and the piezo setup we’ve designed last year. The sound at the meetup was absolutely enlightening.…
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