Join us as we unpack an irresistible gift of hardware: a 10-telephone phone exchange, handsets included (I was told there’s a manual in there, too!).
This is a free event, just comment, or email that you’re coming, so we can make sure there’s enough coffee and sweets for you, too.
If this is your first contact with Forskningsavdelningen, don’t fret, it’s a very friendly place. If you are already doing some kind of project (knitting a quilt, using a new weird tool, or just want to start learning programming Python), bring that with you. Sharing your process and problems often yield help & advice. (It’s also fun to see the projects of others.)
OK, that’s all! See you tomorrow!
Invited to talk in Warsaw! Me (Olle) and Kugg go to the Warsaw tech meetup Bootstrap to show and tell about Arduino, and about Forskningsavdelningen. This will be on Saturday April 4.
Big props to our hosts Marcin and Tomek for letting us sleep on their couches.
At Forsken, yesterday, here’s a short recap.
New people; with mobile sound wagon project
New people showed up! Three folks with a “Dramaten” bag-wagon were making a car battery-powered mobile sound system, and asked for knowledge. Kugg shared what he knew. (Later, he said “I had learnt it all during this year, which started with us trying to build a ‘car battery-powered mobile sound system’ [we failed but learnt much].”) I missed taking their email addresses, so if you read this, just shout out – we want to follow your project. It’d be cool to publish a recipe for this, since it seems to be everyone’s initial step into Making Stuff Themselves.
Copy & Paste library!
Amazing Gunde invited me to be part of Biblioteksgruppen (Swe. The library group). So, now I am. We liked the idea of making a Copy & Paste library for graphics and images and other weird items. For Sharing & Remixing. We’ll pick a good piece of repository software for cataloging. If you’re aching to catalog & collect stuff, give us a shout. Gunde also upgraded the junked PC I’d found in the trash on Sunday, and also already installed Debian on it. He’s totally my hero.
Work on the numeric keypad continues
Linda and Kugg co-worked on an electronics project using optocouplers on an Arduino board, to control a numeric keypad. They drew some really useful, colorful schematics.
Gammu hacking
phrst did some mobile phone control programming, using the Linux system Gammu. His cell phone was constantly beeping.
Ended the night at a local falafel joint, where Kugg explained the ins and outs of hardware industry patents.
See you next time! -Olle
March 17 you’re invited to Industrigatan 20, to join us in hacking, designing, redesigning objects we found or created.
Yes, you, inventive reader!
As a new way of organizing our activity, we’ll have two items on the agenda: the Organized Item (pre-planned and thought out), followed by the Free-ranging Scientific Inquiry (i.e. you futzing around with stuff, plans made up on the spot).
This Tuesday March 17, the theme is “Find An Object, And Redesign It”.
Getting there: look at the map, and follow the Forskningsavdelningen posters.
This is a free event.
