Music Hackday Amsterdam 2010
26.04.10 – 22:42
Last weekend I attended Music Hackday Amsterdam 2010 which was as awesome as always. About 150 people came together for a weekend in some gallery/office-building in the center of Amsterdam. And most of them did awesome hacks.
Apart from meeting a bunch of great people and eating pizza I was taking it slow this time and participated in a hardware workshop by Steim. I learned soldering (inc. burning fingers) and programming Arduino (inc. liking it).
This is the outcome of the days. An Arduino-driven led-lit Noise/Tone/Cracklebox:
Thanks again to everyone who helped me along the way, especially Joep for being so patient with me.
I hope to hack a bit more in the future on this project and to publish the code and soldering plan …
One Response to “Music Hackday Amsterdam 2010”
Awesome, I see you fixed all functionality (the knob wasn’t working yet when you left, was it?). It was my pleasure to help you out, by the way!
If you’re looking for a good, not ridiculously expensive soldering iron I can recommend the one I had with me at Music Hack Day, an Aoyue Int936. Despite its low price (< €30) you still get a stable and complete soldering station with temperature regulation. I bought it from a Dutch web store a few years ago, but I just saw that Amazon.de sells it now so it's probably available more widely than than it used to be. Keep on hacking!
By Joep on May 3, 2010