Audio &visual artists and inventors from the Midwest gather to share their recent homemade experimental electronics projects, instruments, videos, and robots at this DIY convention/lab. Circuit Benders, Toy Hackers, Tech Pirates, and Recycling Junkies will have an opportunity to perform, demonstrate, and lecture about their recent work in the fast-growing art of Acquired Technology.

A gathering of extremely talented and creative hackers took place on Saturday, May 16th, at Lizard’s Liquid Lounge. 3058 W Irving Park Rd., Chicago IL.

Big stuff going down.  Here’s a glimpse….

Video coming soon…

See the full gallery here.

Spent a couple hours on the boxes for some of my latest projects.  Lots of sawdust in my eyes and lungs at the moment.

Here is the rough panel layout for the Stepped Tone Generator.

Drilled some holes on the top for the lamp, the photo-resistor, and the speaker.

Check out the post here.

Thanks for the add Matrix… it’s a honor.

Here is the pinout for the Atari Joystick.  Looks as basic as it gets.  you can now wire this up to control some of your circuit bent gear.

Here’s a quick video of the completed Photo Trans-Actovator.  As you can see this thing is highly sensitive to light.  In the demo I’m using my hands to shadow the photo sensors and also turning on and off ambient light will have a drastic effect.  enjoy.