November 2011 archive

proposal for third project

                                      

radio hack : more documentation

This shows the potentiometer working and linking to different online radio stations via itunes. Unfortunately, I did not press the audio button before recording! Also, here’s some documentation of the new radio we ended up working with:

Tweephone Brings Twitter To Rotary Phones

Tweephone is a cool way to connect to twitter over a dead / lost technology. Tweephone is the first analogue twitter client.

Faxing Flowers

Here’s the blog post I did documenting my fax machine flower press. Dead Technology: Faxes to Flowers

Dead Tech Radio

Kate and I have spent the past month working on hacking into a radio and playing podcasts (little did we initially know, that Jnah had beat us to the punch 10 years ago.) The concept was based around the fact we both like the aesthetics and the physicalness of the ;rage knobs and the shifting …

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Laser Mouse

Re purposed an old laser mouse by replacing the internals with a laser diode from a flashlight. A switch housed in the button controls it.

GameGirl

I didn’t really take deadtech and turn it into something different. Instead I created a different interface for the gameboy. I feminized the gameboy into a gamegirl. I’m slowly learning LSDJ so maybe one day I will be able how to create music.   I used a heart shaped box I had sitting around my …

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