Welcome to BuildBrighton
BuildBrighton: Brighton's Hackerspace
What is BuildBrighton?
BuildBrighton is Brighton's hackerspace - a collective of like minded people who love to build stuff with electronics. We meet at The Skiff from 7pm on Thursdays.
We are a not-for-profit community and all subscriptions go towards paying for the space and providing equipment, amenities and assets for the group.
As a not-for-profit organisation, you can donate to the group. This money will be spent on equipping the space with tools and machinery that will be useful and available to the group as a whole.
We also have a small shop that can supply you with components that you may need to get your project off the ground.
Contact us!
If you want to get in touch or find out more about BuildBrighton then we recommend you join our public mailing list brightonhackerspace@googlegroups.com, or mail [info@buildbrighton.com if you want to ask us something privately.
You can also contact us via twitter - @buildbrighton, or via the IRC channel.
Join us!
BuildBrighton is funded by a monthly subscription by its core members. Subscriptions pay for our rent, and anything left over buys more equipment and components for the group to use.
You can subscribe to BuildBrighton for £20 a month (concessions available). More information can be found on our subscription page.
What do you get?
- Access to the workshop 7 days a week.
- Discounted prices in The Shop
- Discounted prices at some of our Parts Suppliers
- Free and/or heavily discounted access to workshops that we run.
- A warm fuzzy feeling, as all your subscriptions will go towards paying for the space and providing equipment, amenities and assets for the group.
What's going on now?
Featured Project
- What: Therething
- Project Lead: Toby Cole & James Grant
Ultrasonic sensors are used to return a distance value, from the sensor to the player's hand. This value is converted by an Arduino or other microcontroller into a MIDI key value and is output at the correct baud rate (31,250 bps) onto a serial pin. Since MIDI needs a signal to turn off a key pitch as well as a signal to turn it on, two MIDI signals are sent - one to turn off the previous note and one to activate the required note.