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Babelduck Cybernetics

BabelDuck is a new company set up when two people bumped into each other again after a 25 year gap. The founders (Andrew Pusey and Richard Souter) first met whilst studying Degrees in Microelectronics and Information Processing at Brighton Polytechnic … Continue reading

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Meet the Maker: Nomadic Sound System

Last year at Brighton Mini Maker Faire there were a fair few musical makes dotted around the place, from the Blipbox to a subsonic submarine to a stringless ukelele. This year we wanted to do a bit more with the … Continue reading

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HAC:Manchester Hackspace

Project-a-sketch: Giant Etch a sketch HAC:Mannequin: Operation, with a life-size mannequin robot Robots: small Maze solving and Turtle Robots, a Hexapod walking robot 3d printers: We will be printing off little hacman logos during the day for people to take … Continue reading

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Rebel Technology

Open Source / Open Hardware modular synthesiser makers Rebel Technology have grown out of the London Music Hackspace collective. We will be showing, and playing, our current modules and prototypes, demonstrating how micro manufacturing and rapid prototyping technologies can be … Continue reading

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Chi-TEK

We will bring three technologically modified teapots that are interactive, reactive, high-tech and witty, commissioned by MzTEK for Chi-TEK. 1. Tine Bech – LightPot – text a colour and watch it change. 2. Artemis Papageorgiou – This Is Not A … Continue reading

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Antweight Robots

Antweight robots are 150g versions of the 100kg fighting robots seen on Robot Wars. Started in 2000 by robot builders who found it too cold in the winter to work on heavyweight robots in the garage, these tiny robots can … Continue reading

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BuildBrighton Hackspace

We’d like to show off a few of our hackerspace projects, but the two sizey ones are as follows: Roboxylo is a robotic xylophone – controlled either by sequencer or by the public (via various invented input devices). It will … Continue reading

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PlayBot

I built a robot arm out of some meccano, and arduino, and some motors. It can play the glockenspiel and draw. We also have a home-brew boom-cam, and hopefully by the time of the faire some Raspberry Pi based stuff … Continue reading

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Grumpy Mikes Arduino Gadgets

A collection of Arduino based gadgets to delight and amuse. Make a noise with the SpoonDuino the world’s only Spoon based synthesiser. Build your own riff with the RFID sequencer. Make crazy people and dinosaurs with the mix and match … Continue reading

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Guitar effects

Create your own electric guitar/instrument effects, either as pedals or embedded circuits for onboard electronics (inside the instrument). By using digital potentiometers, the sound from the electric guitar can be controlled by inputs on any microcontroller (PIC, Arduino etc) as … Continue reading

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