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After several months of recovering from organising the last event, and another few of getting together to discuss the next one, we’re finally ready to announce a date for Brighton Mini Maker Faire 2012 – and to start taking applications … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Mikepea at BuildBrighton is building a Scalextric setup with a difference! One of the many features we’re thinking about is a POV display on the roof of a car which will plot out a graphic image as the car moved round the track. The first test was to s… Continue reading →

The last year has been crazy. Over the last nine months I started and new job at Codeface, attended a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Manchester, and began studying for an MSc in Intelligent Systems.

I’ve studied, used, and learned an incredible amoun… Continue reading →

Today I wrote my first CL program on the bus. It’ll take me a while to get used to common-lisp-mode in emacs.

;; Summing function
(defun sum (list)
(reduce #’+ list))

;; Calculate the mean
(defun mean (list)
(/ (sum list)
(length list… Continue reading →

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Will and I trying out the sensing and early version of MIDI handling on one half of the table.Video by Will Nash. Will’s site is athttp://www.willnash.co.uk Continue reading →

I thought it was about time to give an update on the MIDI ping pong table sensing stuff. I’ve spent quite a lot of time on it, been through a few iterations of the hardware, and learned a lot! I started this as a total newbie as far as analog electroni… Continue reading →

Well, without too much pain, its just about working! Here is how I went about it, which might help you if you want to make one yourself…When you pick a drive to use, make sure it has four conductors going to the motor (“Y configu… Continue reading →

I picked up a few faulty laptop drives cheap on ebay to take to bits and use for POV projects. I haven’t finished them yet, but have been tinkering over time and will post my progress as I go.For the first one I wanted to put a row of SMD LEDs on the p… Continue reading →

Just starting this project, which again uses a 2.5″ laptop drive.Last year I made a POV “slot” clock on a HDD platter, inspired by other peoples projects I saw online. Around the same time saw an excellent project on YouTube where someone had made a di… Continue reading →