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Just finished the course electronics for absolute beginners for MzTEK. Thanks to everyone who was there for a great day.

Still busy making circuit-bent video mixers. Sharpie TV will be at Bent 2010 in NYC!!

Video bending


Southwold Pier Arcade Machines
 
Two arcade machines I've made that live on the very excellent Southwold Pier in Suffolk, England. Worth a visit just to see the Under The Pier Show by Tim Hunkin and friends.

Lunar Lander

Lunar Lander

Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the moon landings comes Lunar Lander.

A video game without the video

Find out what it's like to land on the moon.

Watch your speed & fuel so you don't crash.

Successful astronauts win a prize.

Starring Emma Freud as mission control
Cyclepong

Cyclepong 2.0

Cyclepong 2.0 is my first arcade machine. It's the classic game Pong played with exercise bikes. As featured in lots of blogs and with it's own cult following.



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Other Projects

Electronics for Absolute Beginners - 2010

A one-day electronics course with lots of  fun projects. Intended to get newcomers interested and enthusiastic and capable to go off and make their own discoveries.
Making electronics
Video Circuit Bending - 2009

Making innovent video equipment do stuff it was never meant to.
Video circuit bending

Atari Punk Console - 2009

A nice little circuit to teach circuit assembly skills and have fun with basic electronics. Originally created for Dorksnow 2009
APC

Honkatron - 2008

The honkatron is a circuit bending project.
honkatron

Berkshire Nerd Directory

Potentially useful suppliers of parts for projects.
Directories

The Marvelous Multiplicity of Microsoft Mice - 2008

A very silly quest to understand the many different designs of the classic Microsoft wheel mouse. This is what comes of spending too long taking them apart to build new things out of!
A mouse

Cyclepong version 1 - 2007/8

Cycles + Pong = Cyclepong.

Updating the classic arcade game Pong.
Cyclepong model

Tape Hack - 2007

Hacking an 80s icon for interesting audio impact.
Tape Hack

Chill Rucksack - 2007

A simple hack to use EL-wire to do signwriting on a rucksack for Big Chill 2007.
Chill Bag

Three Blind Mice - 2006

How to build a six-axis 3D controller to compete with Sony and Nintendo out of old computer mice.
Three Blind Mice

Mazda Bongo - Design for DIY Kitchen Unit - 2006


A very simple DIY kitchen unit to fit in the rear of a Mazda Bongo. Also available in PDF.

Also here Mazda Bongo schematics and parts database.


 
kitchen

Hat Hack - 2005/6

Essential wear for the summer festival season.

As featured in Hackaday, Engadget, Make blog and Top 5 Strangest Pong Creations on TechEBlog (only made it in to number 5 sadly).

Mac-ITX - 2004

My old Mac SE/30 modified to use a mini-ITX motherboard. A very stealthy mod. As documented on mini-itx.com and featured in Wired and boing boing.

A silent tivo (not)   

An attempt to modify my UK series 1 Tivo to allow the fan to be removed. Unfortunately didn't really work.

A-Z pronto CCF for tivo

CCF for old-style black and white Philips Prontos. This provides an A-Z keyboard to save you picking letters off the "chess board". Codes are right for UK series 1 Tivos

Software

Software stuff has its own home at www.pinedragon.com