Decided to kick off the year by getting the main workspace de-cluttered and organized.  Trying to make room for storage of completed projects and projects that are upcoming.

The electronics lab. Yes, this is clean and organized.

Couple things you aren’t seeing in this photo…. Directly to the left of the camera is my “in progress” stack which is a pile of small boxes that each contain a project that it’s in production.  Directly behind the camera is the music studio.  Drum sets, amps, mixer, mics, speakers, guitars, etc. are set up and ready to record.  Needless to say a lot is in the works…. updates soon.

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.

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.