Yesterday I took my first tentative steps with Arduino (yes technically it was a Freeduino) thanks to the workshops at Howduino & Fizzpop. I’ve been wanting to play with duino’s for a while, but as its been over 10 years since I had to deal with electronics and circuits I hadn’t the foggiest where to start and was keen to avoid my tendency of buying ‘how to’ books to gather dust on a bookcase. (more…)
Cake Orchestra (with additional percussion) from nikkipugh on Vimeo.
Its still early days for me in my move back to Birmingham since starting at Screen WM, so I’m keen to get out and about to see what geeky fun is to be had in the Second city and last night I popped along to fizzPOP in ‘Digital’ Digbeth.
FizzPOP in its own words is “a group of people with a wide range of skills and interests, bound by a common interest in tinkering with stuff to make something new. It’s a hackerspace.” this intro combined with videos (see above) of cake orchestras, knowledge of soldering and ‘Arduino’ (which I need to get my head around if I am ever actually going to build myself a Meggy Jr) was more than enough to get me along yesterday eve.
Although I have NOOOO techy or DIY skills I was warmly welcomed and in no time was soldering and data bending c/o the guys there. So anyone else interested in tinkering and hacking with tech in the midlands area should definitely get down to the next meet up in 2 weeks and I most certainly will.
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