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Electronics Workshop with Mitch Altman

Published on July 4, 2009 in brighton, electronics, hacking, mitch altman, robot brighton and the skiff. 1 Comment Tags: brighton, electronics, hacking, mitch altman, robot brighton, the skiff.

RobotBrighton and The Skiff hosted an excellent electronics workshop today with Mitch Altman – the guy who invented the TV-B-Gone and the Brain Machine – who kindy decided to visit us in Brighton during his stay in the UK.

It’s been many years since I’ve done any soldering, and to be fair I was never that good at it, so it was good to have an expert on hand to show how it’s done.

Mitch had a few kits with him for sale, I bought a Mignonette game kit to help me practice my soldering, and a Brain Machine kit that I’ll put together soon. I had a go on one of the pre-built Brain Machines, and they are very strange..

I haz made Yey for making stuff

More photos on Flickr.

Hacker Spaces

Published on March 30, 2009 in electronics, hacking and programming. 2 Comments Tags: electronics, hacking, programming.

Found on the Wired blog. Brighton so needs one of these!

[update]: I see The Skiff is listed in the HackerSpaces wiki. Is it really a hacker space? Surely it’s more of a co-working thing? Perhaps they’re one and the same. Perhaps I just like the look of the photographs in the article.