Month: September 2016
More breadboard basics with a familiar chip
Forest Mims and the 555 Timer
His website: http://www.forrestmims.org/biography.html
One of his books (a cult-classic): the Engineer’s Mini-Notebook. The circuit diagram for what became the Atari Punk Console is on page 13 of the pdf (22 of the original).
engineers-mini-notebook-555-timer-circuits
And the Kaustic Machines version: http://compiler.kaustic.net/machines/apc.html
THANK YOU JAMES(!) and soldering temperatures
First of all a BIG thank you to our fearless lab manager, James, for cleaning the soldering irons. We should get more consistent results and properly hot irons thanks to his efforts. AND, for the common solder type that we use 60/40 or 63/37 rosin core solder that we use in our projects, a typical melting point… Continue reading THANK YOU JAMES(!) and soldering temperatures
How to Use a Multimeter
Big (and medium and small) and Beautiful
Your Next Project…
5 Points of the Zombie Media Manifesto
As a manifesto, five points of zombie media stand out:
1/ We oppose the idea of dead media. Although death of media may be useful as a tactic to
oppose dialog that only focuses on the newness of media, we believe that media never
dies. Media may disappear in a popular sense, but it never dies: it decays, rots, reforms,
remixes, and gets historicized, reinterpreted and collected. It either stays as a residue
in the soil and in the air as concrete dead media, or is reappropriated through artistic,
tinkering methodologies.
2/ We oppose planned obsolescence. As one corner stone in the mental ecology of
circulation of desires, planned obsolescence maintains ecologically unsupportable
death drive that is destroying our milieus of living.
3/ We propose a depunctualization of media and the opening, understanding and hacking
of concealed or blackboxed systems: whether as consumer products or historical
archives.
4/ We propose media archaeology as an artistic methodology that follows in the traditions
of appropriation, collage and remixing of materials and archives. Media archaeology
has been successful in excavating histories of dead media, forgotten ideas, sidekicks and
minor narratives, but now its time to develop it from a textual method into a material
methodology that takes into account the political economy of contemporary media
culture.
5/ We propose that reuse is an important dynamic of contemporary culture, especially
within the context of electronic waste. “If it snaps shut, it shall snap open.” We agree in
that open and remix culture should be extended to physical artifacts.
