Category Archives: Hobbies

Edge Hill Archives Open Day

The Edge Hill Archive Open day was far more successful than METAL had expected with locals arriving in large numbers to record their memories about growing up, living and working in Edge Hill. Edge Hill residents came with stories, photographs more »

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Your Station

The Your Station exhibition is is full swing. Tickets Please is turning out to be very popular, I am rather proud! It is being exhibited among some amazing sculptures, photographs and paintings from the Future Station group at Metal until more »

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Playing “Tickets Please”

“Tickets Please” is packed up and delivered to METAL. I have had time to edit some video footage of the game in action from our final play tests. “Tickets Please” is an oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration more »

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Making “Tickets Please”

Today we completed making “Tickets Please” It is an Arduino and RFID powered oral history memory game allowing fun interactive exploration of the Edge Hill Archive. The “Signal Repeater” electronic hub was made by Mycroft Milverton, the game board was more »

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Return to Iron Mountain and Other Stories

Bonk Street Theatre performed an astounding sequel to From Beyond Iron Mountain with Return to Iron Mountain and Other Stories. Brox played the starring role of Beelzebub. He wrote a very witty part and performed it to much laughter from more »

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Circuit Bending 101

Today I learned how to break toys. And then to make them funner! By adding photo resistors, potentiometers, body contacts, switches, LEDs and additional wirings I turned a toy music player, a talking halloween toy and a toy phone into more »

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