In the spirit of earth day and keeping old toys out of the landfills Tommy Stephenson and Patrick McCarthy hosted a free bending workshop in Chicago on Saturday, April 25th.  It was great to know that this community is alive and well and growing in the midwest.  It was cool to meet Austin (aka Creme Dementia) who had a slick electronic bird calender tweaked on the workbench.  He also had a selection of his contact mics for sale.  I picked one up and from messing around with it for a about 15 minutes I realize that I ‘m going to want to purchase several more.  Tons of potential for amplifying objects.  It was also great to meet Alex Deeba from Get LoFi.com.  He has a ton of sweet project kits for sale on his site.  He was sticking one of his precision oscillators into an old school game boy to tweak it’s clock.  Good stuff.

I’m glad I stumbled upon this event… looking forward to others.

Here’s a few pics from the evening.