Ellentriek

When?
Friday 13/01/2012 – 11:00 > 19:00
Saturday 14/01/2012 – 11:00 > 19:00
Where?
Timelab, Brusselsepoortstraat 97 – 9000 Gent

This Ellentriek is about textile, electronics and wireless interaction. We will focus on soft sensors made with textile and on how you can communicate the results of these sensors to an Arduino and/or computer. This data transfer will be wireless, with xbees.

Ellentriek is a series of workshops, often collaborative, where artists can come and work together on their own artistic electronics projects, made with open hardware.

Naomi Kerkhove and her fabulous miniature worlds with needle and wire is a special guest of this session, with her ‘Valies’ project, which premiers in Vooruit in autumn. She will work on the sensor part of her performance during the workshop.

With the following experts:
Marije Baalman – http://www.nescivi.nl/
XY Interaction – http://xyinteraction.free.fr/wiki/

This Ellentriek is a collaboration between Timelab, WP Zimmer, Constant & Pianofabriek Arts Lab.

Links:
http://www.timelab.org
http://www.constantvzw.org 
http://www.pianofabriek.be/kunstenwerkplaats

pleas enroll on www.timelab.org
If you have any questions, contact wendy attt constantvzw . org
Max amount of participants: 12

Quasi OBJets environnements hybrides

Weiser 1991

Ubiquitous Technology informatique omnipresente

In opposition to the desktop « user » ubiquitous technologies engages many more dispositifs at the same time in daily activities and the person is not necessarily aware that this the case.

Laura Beloff Erich Berger « heart donnor »,

http://www.realitydisfunction.org/heartdonor/

http://randomseed.org/sevenmileboots/

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~off/off/

Garnment as a historical tool to the body:

Kobakant, massage me 2007 http://www.massage-me.at/

Textile as an open source technology:

Lily pad Leah Buckley

http://www.kobakant.at/DIY/

http://www.kobakant.at/?p=36

http://www.instructables.com/id/Puppeteer-Motion-Capture-Costume/

Alyce Sonic Sonic fabric

http://www.sonicfabric.com

Textile as a participative proposition:

Html Patchwork
Open Source Embroidery a project initiated by Ele Carpenter

http://www.open-source-embroidery.org.uk/wiki/

http://www.capacitor.constantvzw.org/?p=244

http://fr.flossmanuals.net/arduino/ch003_exemples-dusages

Garnment as a critical tool:

Jana Sterback remote control  II 1991

http://www.projectfacade.com/index.php

http://www.fudgethefacts.com/hands/index.html

PROPOSITION PARTICIPATIVE
pour une multiplicite d’usagers

Interac wearing Experientiae electricae 2009
La négociation pour son espace d’action dans une pièce collective
La transformation de son rythme personnel par le jeu en réponse au rythme proche
L’ajustement de son propre rythme en fonction du rythme global
l’appropriation des choix d’un autre

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xaq98z_interac-wearing-par-experientiae-el_creation

Transformation des critères de la cartographie
critères personnels
aléatoires
Affectifs
intimes
pratiques issues de la derive urbaines
bio mapping
Jeu Urbain

Diana Heng Blogger Hoody 2003

XS labs, sonic tuxedo 2008

Becky Stern Compubody sock

XY interaction, interface pour la composition sonore et musicale

We are making the Ellentriek Valies, a travel trunk full of tools, electronic goodies and microcontrollers. You can use the suitcase to start tinkering with interactive electronics wherever you wish.

We had quite some dilemma’s to deal with:
- what kind of trunk do you choose: a real tool case (heavy), a travel trunk?
- what is absolutely necessary if you want to tinker with basic electronics?

Here are a few lists that inspired us:
—> http://www.makershed.com/Ultimate_Microcontroller_Pack_p/msump.htm?Click=37845
—> http://www.makershed.com/Mintronics_Survival_Pack_p/mstin2.htm
—> http://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/hands-on/diy-essentials/0

After the trunk was chosen, a light-weight, sturdy 2 wheeled red chunk of plastic, you have to customize it, make it ready for tools.

Here are some images of dressing up the trunk. Rosalie Stevens did the nice design and sewing work, I was part of making (dumb labour ).

What tools have to go in there?

In the middle there will be a tool insert, fabric over wood.

A first possible lay-out of tools:

This is the fabric and elastic that will hold the tools:

The one thing which got finished today was putting the Crickx letters on the outside.

I’m afraid that we did mix italic with non-italic, with different sizes.. It looks great! Thanks a lot Uberknackig for sticking the letters on the trunk. I had sticking fear..

Still quite some work ahead of us…

Contact us if you want to use the Valies.

One of the Constant members is going to Dakar, to give a workshop, and lots more. So for this, we decided to give some pretty chips to take along- electronics are not so easy to get in Senegal.

We got a gift from the Brussels Hackerspace:

Most chips are really classics, versatile and very practical:

A few 555 timers, opamps, pretty blue dip switches – there was very little time to get this package together.
So – enjoy, it in Senegal!

are here:

A little taste:

when?
wednesday 09/11/2011 – 13:00 > 19:00
wednesday 23/11/2011 – 13:00 > 19:00
where?
Pianofabriek, rue du fort 35, 1060 St. Gilles

Please inscribe beforehand wendy attt constantvzw . org
for electric-minded do-it-yourselfers and creative tinkerers/artists

Ellentriek is all about audio in november. We will learn how to build small own amplifiers and microphones, during two long Wednesday afternoons. With a soldering iron, a couple of components, some creativity and tons of good vibes we’ll happily tinker away!
The workshops are free and multilingual. Ellentriek is open for beginners and advanced tinkerers. If you have your own DIY audio project, bring it along.

Hacker and inventor Mitch Altman, Andie Nordgren and Jeff Keyzer teamed up to make the “Soldering is Easy. Here’s how to do it” comic book.

Altman often travels the globe, to introduce people to soldering, and of course, linked to that, soldering is also an introduction to the innards of technology.

This pdf has been published under an open Creative commons license. A book – physical world – will follow. I’ll try to follow up how they will deal with licensing there.

In any case – another sweet reference for beginners. For sure it will be part of the Ellentriek library!

Via BoingBoing.

DIY Day is looking for participants!

WHAT?
A day of creation and entertainment with DIY workshops, art expo, concerts,
jam sessions, street animation, circus, gardening, interactive
installations, markets and much more for all ages!

There will be multiple islands, each about a specific theme. At "The Lab" we
will be working & exhibiting work involving electronics, eg workshops about
making your own speaker out of scrap, the link between electronics &
vegetables, bicycle alternator sound, electromotor fun, circuitbending, a
contactmic sculptures, ... and some noize with Nohmad sound!

WHO?
A group of friends with different backgrounds getting together with a mutual
interest and organizing a day for everybody!

WHEN?
10 September 2011 - 13h till 21h
Afterparties start at 21h

The workshops at the lab will be from 14h00 till 18h00

WHERE?
Brussels Centre:
Marché des cochons / Varkensmarkt & MicroMarché
Metro Sint Catherine / Sint Katelijne

WANT TO HELP?
Anybody who shares our interests, or has others to share with us, and can
help during DIY DAY is more than welcome!!
We are still looking for people interested in giving a helping hand at the
lab, helping participants with their projects, present your own project
(maybe even do a demo or small workshop), hang around, have fun!

If you would like to get involved, contact Jeroen De Meyer at
jrndemeyer [attttt] gmail.com.

There is more info about the event on http://www.diyday.be

Imagine a rainy summer day, a motor, a toothbrush and a battery, all ingredients for fun day making a bristlebot. But no such luck. Noa and his friends’s bristlebot kept flipping over, probably because the motor was a bit too strong for the toothbrush. But, the holiday tinkering spirit was strong that day, so, they also did experiments with Catamaranbots, which they kept on sailing in circles.

After these semi-failed experiments,  the holiday tinkering gang started playing with another variation, including matches and a matchbox, leaving the toothbrush and boat behind…

So here comes the…

Matchdogbot!

He has four legs made out of matches + a matchbox body + a superpaper head + 3 Volt battery + rotary vibration engine

(for the most part the ingredients of a bristlebot)

Here is the video of Matchdogbot, where in French Noa comments: “A motor of 2 euro, a battery of 50 cents and a box of one euro 50, which makes 4 euro.. Yes, says the other voice…”

Html compatible ogg video large
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Proprio .mov

DIY in Kenia documentary

This is a little documentary on DIY from Kenya. It ranges from building engines on bikes, acquiring a sewing machine and changing your life, to much more.
It is made in French, but mostly English is spoken, with intermediate comments in Dutch. The style is a bit euuhhhm hip, superficial tv. But you get the gist of it..

Thanks Ghent Hackerspace members