trick.
It is funny how I have just learned something that I have been doing since about a year ago. It has just dawned on me that to open a speaker, generally you should open the grill first. I have done…
remote control baby.
Meet toy 5, a cable-controlled truck. Ken and I decided to mux it with toy 6, a baby that gurgles while it crawls on its four little legs. Despite promising to let me do the hacking and problem solving, Ken…
the butterfly generator.
The Butterfly Generator (2012) is produced in cooperation with ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany, artist-in-residence program of the exhibition The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 and Osage Art Foundation, Hong Kong. Many thanks to Lysander…
construction.
In the morning of new year’s day I pondered, horizontally and from my bed, on how I liked my bedroom window. How it has given me joy, and made me wake up happy. Then I thought I should do a…
powerswitch.
“Powerswitch,” reminds me of the Singaporean children’s part in The Adventures of Flo and Kat (2003-2005) project. I have been pondering on it for a while. My hesitation of course had something to do with procrastination and chickening out. Somewhere…
digital analog serial parallel.
Last Monday I checked out O’Sullivan and Igoe’s Physical Computing from the library and started reading it earlier today. It’s putting my scattered mind into place. Now I know that toy 1 has digital I/O (input/output) and serial events, toy…
toy three.
Before I bought any of my toys, during one of my WiFi trips to Macca’s I considered contributing to the giga-franchise as I have used a considerable amount of its free internet connection. I bought what they called the “Happy…
toy three secrecy.
When I arrived at Savers Brunswick last Sunday, I was quite disappointed to see that the infrared toy that I have been eyeing and thinking about was not there anymore. Have I been thinking too much? Should I have just…
toy two.
I still don’t have a soldering iron yet. Thinking of buying a soldering station, but the price makes me think again. I kept thinking I might be able to get something cheaper in Indonesia. I am thinking and thinking. And…
init.
One day last September I participated in a one-day toyhacking workshop held by tinker.it and onedotzero. Yes, electronics – almost 24 years after a failed attempt to build a radio from scratch in grade 7. I was a bit reluctant…