Category Archives: Making Things

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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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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Vikki and Jeff get Married

June 18 My good friends Vikki and Jeff got married! The asked Brox and I to make them a wedding bouquet, we up-cycled it from newspaper! It was a marvellous day spent with friends old and new, and we wish more »

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Light Night

We had an enormously pleasurable Light Night. We met up with friends at a vintage fair, visited the Walker Art Gallery and then St George’s Hall. We ended up at the ADA where they had loads going on! While there more »

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Edgy: The Railway Cabaret

On Saturday myself and Brox performed with the rest of the Sound Tracks group in Edgy: The Railway Cabaret. Part of the Working Class Life and Music Festival. Our show “Sound Bites” was inspired by the Oral History stored in more »

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Them pidgins are up to summat!

Them pidgins are up to summat… They’re organised… I know it… That blue one… I reckon he’s their leader… (Misquoted from Chicken Run) I have made eight polyfoam pigeons for a performance Brox and I are part of next Saturday more »

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