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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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Noisy Table

A modified table tennis table that triggers sounds and music based on the location of the impact of the ball

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After Dark: The Brighton Mini Maker Faire After Party

We just can’t get enough maker-action around here. After the Brighton Mini Maker Faire finished up last year, the makers and team headed down to the pub to unwind after a hectic day of crafting and tinkering, to have a … 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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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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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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Faulty Dog

Faulty Dog is the digital media art collective of Maff Littlemore and Richard Davis. After meeting on the MA DMA course in Brighton, the artists continue to hack and rebuild familiar found objects, giving them a new lease of life … Continue reading

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Nomadic Sound System/Bend Audio projects

The Nomadic Sound System is a family of wireless, battery powered, portable speakers designed to explore new ways for sound to interact with people and space. The project borrows from the typology of the marching band with the pieces intended … Continue reading

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Mike Challis – ‘Conductable’

Mike Challis Ed Perkins with Model and Special Effects Programme, University of Hertfordshire Conductable is a multiplayer musical interface that uses ultrasonic sensors as well as knobs and buttons to allow players to control their part of the instrument. It … Continue reading

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