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.)

Also 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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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