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AZLabs @ O Espaço Do Tempo (0day -2)

2 days to go until the exhibit opening of the Audiencia Zero Labs residency at O Espaço Do Tempo!
A few folks seem to be missing in action. Mauricio is back with some news from Interactivos to lend us a hand on pending projects. Mónica and Pedro are still working on B-wind!. Margarida working on [...]

Drum Pads

Hey.
Four drum pads ready to go.
All made of old material found in the Alt/Lab installations, and a very special big thankxxx for Mónica who brought the casings (we are going back to that in a moment) for the drum pads.
So the idea was to make drum pads that we could hook up to a sound [...]

Make your own game-pad!

…Don’t let others tell you how many buttons you can press at once, these are times of freedom :)
This is a homemade game-pad with just one accelerometer (a breakout board from Sparkfun) and one push-button.
Using a simple, custom protocol and a C# listener we could play Acceleroids, an Asteroids lost sibling on Steroids, which uses the [...]

Circuit Bending

Hello “intrenets” people(s)
This post today reflects a little about  what circuit bending and diy are.
I have many friends and colleagues  asking me “-So what is circuit bending?”, well here goes the awser and a bit of the history behind circuit bending.
Seems that a guy called Reed Ghazala, was making experiments with some synthesizers, trying to [...]

PAPERduino’s design

This is a fully functional version of the Arduino. We eliminated the PCB and use paper and cardboard as support and the result is.. the PAPERduino :D
This is the the first version of the layout design, next we will try more designs, and other materials. You just need to print the top and the bottom [...]

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