Category Archives: Open Hardware

Objects in Common Worksession – RAW and unprocessed

In collaboration with Medialab Prado Constant organised the worksession ’Objects in Common’ as the final event in a series that started in 2015 with ’Funcionamientos: Objects in Common and Diverse Bodies’ followed by ’Interactivos? Material Cultures in the digital age’ and ’Grigri Pixel: makers and energy in African cities’. The series ’Objetos Comunes’ wants to […]

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Diverted Objects

Invited by Constant, on Saturday the 12/09/2015 LibreObjet organized a workshop in their atelier, with the central idea of the fork. There were three times two hours of making lamps. Ingredients per person or design team: – 3 meter of white cable – one broomstick – two 220 lamp sockets – one white led – […]

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eTextile Summercamp

From July 27th to August 2nd in Poncé sur le Loir, Claire Williams and I participated in the eTextile Summercamp. Along the week there were workshops and some talks – the reports & tutorials are still growing – including the recipes of the delicous food at Paillard: – Screen printing circuits – Energy Harvesting And […]

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Software & Open Hardware – reprogramming MakeyMakey on Linux

Often in Open Hardware projects you have a direct link with software. Depending on the project, the connected software is more or less multiplatform. The more “public friendly’ your open hardware project, apparently the harder it becomes to get support for Linux. Or your project is so specific, it runs only on particular systems, under […]

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RGB Colour LCD Screen

How to make a narrative on an LCD screen: -> the colours have to change -> you have two times 16 characters -> every time you print a text on the screen, it has to be reset to it’s initial position Here’s a video of the first narrative I made for the “Big Fat Failed […]

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Raspberry Pi and touch

Not the greatest picture —> today I tried to combine the Rapsberry Pi with Makey Makey (basically a microcontroller that enables you to turn almost all conductive material into Keyboard input: left click, arrows or space). It works out of the box with the Raspberry Pi default Linux distribution called Rasbian. This opens up quite […]

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