Meetup
Diddley 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 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…
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