Hacking an old analog phone
Via, www.designandenvironment.co.uk. Written by Marente January 27th, 2011
Last week we had an amazing two-day workshop, working with and recycling electronic waste into new forms. Guest lecturers and designers Benjamin Gaulon and Brian Solon were really patient with us and totally rocked the classroom!
The workshop was a lot of fun! Not only did we get to take products apart (what’s better than that?), we learned how to use basic Arduino, start programming ourselves and give electronic waste a new life.
Marcela Teran, Elvira Grob and I hacked an old analog phone (with a lot of help from Benjamin, thanks!). The numbers were individually linked to different songs and when you’d dial a set of numbers you’d get this crazy musical mix.
This link will show a video of the hacked phone:
E-Waste Workshop 8.0 @Tweak (Limerick, Ireland)
E-WASTE WORKSHOP
Worskhop tutors: Benjamin Gaulon and Lourens Rozema
All Out Design 5 Sarsfield Street
10 am Wednesday 15th – 5pm Thursday 16th September
Fee €60
Limited to 10 participants
Skill level: Beginners
Using e-waste as raw material, this workshop offer participants to become familiar with basic hardware and software hacking / recycling while at the same time gaining hands-on experience making an interactive art project.
This workshop is open to participants of different backgrounds and no programming or electronic skills are required. The idea is to start from scratch and create a complete project over a short time, including concept, design, electronics / interfacing, and functional programming with Arduino, Max/Msp, Pure Data or Processing.
In this workshop participants will deconstruct readily-available, cheap electronic devices into interactive tools is more than a lot of fun; the process offers the same visible, hands-on learning and understanding acquired through dissection. By re-purposing second-hand hardware or cheap toys, a commercial, mass-produced product is transformed into a unique device, with potential for new and original means of expression or communication. The objects produced in this workshop will be exhibited as part of the Tweak exhibition in the Church Gallery Space in LSAD.
Info and Booking: http://www.tweak.ie/workshop.html
