A more detailed report will follow, I’m sure, as soon as the adrenaline fades and naps are taken.
Until then…
Also, there are more pictures in this Flickr Set.
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Electronica Fest: Saturday Sep 5
http://www.nem-electronicafest.com/, featuring a whole slew of Balimore/DC local artists and electronic-music instrument makers. (For instance, http://www.ciat-lonbarde.net/) It’s going to be good.
And for HacDC’s part, we’re putting on a build-your-own-simple-synth workshop. If you made it to the space last Thursday, you have a good idea of how it goes (and probably saw a variable resistor made out of grape soda and a pencil!). If not, come help out anyway, and we’ll show you the ropes. It’s a very basic setup, but there’s tons of room for creativity.
For the workshop crowd: gates open at 10am in Lithincum MD, which means our caravan needs to leave HacDC at 8:30am. If you’re able to drive, we have a few folks who need rides, so please swing by the space.
It’ll be a fun day, a good opportunity for community outreach, and volunteers get in free. Can’t beat that with a stick! See you all bright and early tomorrow morning.
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And as if electronica-fest weren’t enough, if you’ve still got any residual electro-music hankerings, the Sonic Circuits pre-season opens up at Pyramid Atlantic later Saturday night. http://dc-soniccircuits.org/ for info. If you came to the Dave Vosh synth-toys demo/lecture at HacDC, you’ll note that he’s playing his real rig tomorrow night.
Test-kit assembly for Electronica Fest Workshop
HacDC is running a build-a-simple-noisemaker-synth workshop at Electronica Fest (http://www.nem-electronicafest.com/).
Come help test-run the kits and/or work on embellishments. The kit is a fun and easy blank-slate for your electro-acoustic creativity. Let’s see where we can take it.
Thursday night, Aug 27, starting around 7:30 pm — going until we’re out of brain-juice (or whenever).
HacDC phone rings again!
In case some of you hadn’t noticed the payphone is back up and working. Thanks Serge.
That’s (202) 870-5002, by the way.
Noisemaker Workshop: Round N+1!
Tonight: Diodes and Ring Modulators.
I’ve gotten in a bunch of XOR chips, and that lets us do ring modulation — the key to getting that tuning-in-the-shortwave-radio sound. (And more!) It’s lots of cheap, easy fun.
Once we get a handle on the XOR, we’ll make variable-width pulses. This gets us a cheap phasing sound and will let us sync a bunch of oscillators to each other.
But do we dare combine multiple sync’ed oscillators with XORing?!?! Oh yes.
Bring in breadboards (preferably with your 74HC14 and other chips). We’ll be making a bunch of quick and dirty circuits and there’s too much room for experimentation to be soldering this stuff up. As usual, I’ll have parts if you need them, but today you can also re-use any of the stuff you haven’t soldered down.