March 10th, 2010
Last night we went over to ResonanceFM (104.1) to talk a little about MzTEK with Furtherfield’s Marc Garrett. What a fun program, jitters aside! If you didn’t listen last night, stay tuned as a podcast will be available soon (we’ll link to it here of course.)
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lso speaking was curator Douglas Dodd from the V&A, who discussed the Digital Pioneers exhibition and some quite interesting facts about the history of making art with computers (think long before Photoshop, Kraftwerk, etc.)
And lucky for us, we were able to snag a nifty copy of the beautiful exhibition book—a first entry in the MzTEK library (and god willing not the last!)
Thanks Mr. Dodd and the folks at Furtherfield!
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March 8th, 2010
Hi Friends,
We’re conducting a survey to strengthen our programs and research what you want, what your experience with us has been, and what you want to learn!
Take a moment (weeeee moment) and fill out our survey to help us in our quest for awesomeness.
Love, MzTEK
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March 7th, 2010
MzTEK will be chatting to Furtherfield.org Tuesday night 8pm! Catch us on the radio.

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March 1st, 2010

What a long, fun day! We started with interactive designer and tutor Daniel Hirschmann by exploring electricity, the basics of circuit building (and those of use who attended Iain’s awesome Basic Electronics workshop were in the know).

Then we moved onto some programming in Arduino and getting the board to respond to stimuli and output feedback in our serial port.

Finally, we put it all together, building circuits, working with analog and digital writes and reads, playing with force resistors, light sensors, buttons, etc.
For anyone who is not familiar with all of the above, any step can be a big hurdle (let alone combining programming & circuitry in one go.)

If you attended the workshop and would like to review or revisit anything we did, Daniel will be posting notes to the workshop on his site, or you can email us for circuit images (close ups!) and code.
Special thanks to SPACE for their support and donating their fantastic front media lab.
XO, MzTEK
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February 10th, 2010

Supported by SPACE.
Coming up in a few week’s time : our next exciting workshop. This time, interactive expert Daniel Hirschmann takes us through an introduction to Arduino and how to get started programming and setting up basic interactive elements. We’ll cover the basic circuitry, programming Arduino, and users various sensors and components.
The kick-off to a series of Arduino-based workshops, this first one will get you situated using fun sensors, lights, and components.
Sign up quickly as spaces are limited! Sign up for the event now!
Arduino starter kits are available at Oomlout.com. Pre-order your kit today, if you would like to be able to work with your own Arduino and take your project home with you. Extra kit will be available at the workshop to borrow (and possibly purchase) for the course, if you don’t bring your own.
Please contact us if you have any questions
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