Oct 30, 2007
Hands on work started today
Alejandro works with an old keyboard to build a sensor.
Alejandro II experiments with Arduino and motors.
The sensor is a microphone…
Paja
Rapid prototyping for music, art and design work
collaborative tools with microcontroller
Electronic component shops in Helsinki
- Bebek Electronic (Hakaniemi) by Hakaniemi square. Questionable customer relations practices.
- ELFA Elektronikka OY
- Partco Oy Teuvo Pakkalantie 9. Bus 52 from Taik
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy You can order the PCB that you designed.
- Radioduo Oy Ruosilankuja 3, 00390 Helsinki. Bus 45,315,321,324,345,362,361,363
- Tieto Nikkeri Radio controlled vehicle shop (e.g. servo motors)
- UralTone amplification focused on guitar amps, plenty of standard components and friendly
Facilities
Institutes and schools
- Gestalten mit digitalen Medien
- IAMAS, Japan
- Interaction Design Institute Ivrea, Italy
- Interaction Design, RCA, London
- Interactive Environments Lab, University of Lapland
- Interactive Institute, Sweden
- Interactive Telecommunications Program, NYU, NY
- Media Lab Helsinki
- medialab madrid
- Persons Design + Technology
- Rekimoto Lab at the University of Tokyo
- The Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design
Material shops in Helsinki region
- cyncrona oy
- Kevra Oy glass fiber, silicon, epoxy resin
- Muovikilpi Oy Acrilic, plastic materials
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy The Finnish company who makes PCB for you.
Online shops for Arduino users
- Acroname Inc (U.S) Sensors for beginners
- Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits (U.S.)
- Electrokit (Sweden)
- iCube (U.S.) controlling devices via MIDI. Good for sound oriented designers
- Images Science Instruments
- Images Scientific Instruments
- Lawicel AB (Sweden) online shop where you can buy BASIC Stamp and other components
- Maker SHED from MAKE Magazine, craftzine.com, and Maker Faire
- Månsteri store (Finland)
- paeae.com (Finland)
- Parallax online shop (U.S)
- Robmaa.com (Finland)
- robotshop.se (Sweden) online shop where you can buy BASIC Stamp and other components
- Rounded: just click and repair You can find any parts of consumer products for repairing by yourself.
- Seeed Studio
- Spark Fun Electronics (U.S.)
- Tigal
- Velleman Kit
- Watterott electronic
Tools for physical computing
- a resistor calculator for Mac OS X Dashboard
- Arduino (microcontroller)
- Circuit Playground (iPhone app)
- EAGLE (CAD software for PCB) Educational version is free.
- ElectroDroid (Android app)
- Fritzing PCB CAD tool for Aduiino
- Parallax BASIC Stamp (microcontroller)
- Prinel Piirilevy Oy You can order the PCB that you designed.
- Wiring Wiring is an open source hardware
Tutorials
Administration
Grid Focus by Derek Punsalan 5thirtyone.com.
Whitespace
No technical comments but just keep that going on. Fantastic!
To Alejandro I and his work on with a keyboard:
I’ve got news from Lotta Partanen who made this wonderful sonic sofa I told you about.
You will need a very old keyboard with metallic pieces to sold the electric wires to.
We cannot use this kind of keyboard made with plastic films.
So let’s look for the appropriate ancient keyboard! It can also be a USB one…