So my group of friends and I exhibited our “Neobombe” prototype at the Singapore Maker Faire last weekend. After submitting our proposal more than two months ago, we managed to scrap together a working prototype. It is far from perfect and has a lot of room for improvement. Given more time and budget, we could …
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So some of my friends and I (our group has a name – “Art Makes Us“) decided to take part in the Maker Faire in Singapore this year. It will be held a primary school in Tampines sometime early July. Here is our project description: “Neobombe” is a scientific artwork based on the Turing machine …
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I was given a mysterious job at work from the very top management in my company. I was asked to make a simple communication device that merely says “yes” or “no” with a single button. A longer press means “no” while a short press means “yes”, denoted by a blinking red and green LED respectively. …
I was asked to do some research on the Arduino Ethernet shield for potential uses in interactive installations. So I spent a couple of days learning about it and creating a proof of concept working prototype that shows a two way communication of data via the Ethernet between a PC and an Arduino. Strings and …
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As part of work research, I was asked to hack a Hasbro toy lightsaber. It was the first time I tried hacking anything at all and I considered it a minor miracle that I succeeded. By hacking, I mean actually replacing the entire electronics, LEDs and the logic chip, and replacing them with my own …
As of late November 2014, I got a new job in an interactive agency with a job title “experiential media specialist”. I shall henceforth be known as the “electronics guy”, the one wielding a soldering iron. See, I even got my own tool bag. And this is my workbench. This role has very much to …
I made this gramophone in four weeks. It looks and feels like a gramophone but obviously doesn’t function exactly like one. It has a turntable and (fake) vinyl records, but it is actually a laptop in disguise. There is a webcam on top of the screen, and the electronics inside include a Mac Mini and …
I had the good fortune to work on a really fun project for the Maker Faire Rome as part of my freelance stint with Metalworks by Maxus, the creative technology R&D arm of the media buy company. So I would like to share a bit on what went on behind this project. The brief given to …
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Had the great opportunity to attend a weekend crash course on Arduino. Since I was already familiar with Arduino, it was more of a refresher course for me and I got to meet other makers and DIY enthusiasts. It was hosted by David Goomba, the guy in the Arduino company in charge of workshops. I …
This was the second year of the event held on the last weekend of July. While I was a visitor last year, I became a participant this year with my own maker booth entitled “Hobby Electronic Light Gadgets” where I displayed some of my DIY light gadgets. It was held at the Scape Warehouse. This …
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