It’s only taken about 6 months, but I’ve updated the Hacker’s wallet to accommodate £20 notes, on the behest of Paul. Ashamedly, i obviously don’t see them very often! The new source is here.

I’ve been helping Jonnie with his installation coming up this weekend, involving 8 Niftymitters.. Do come along, it is going to have to be good.A full length album of material from Jonnie Common’s debut ‘Master Of None’ remixed by a talented bunch of his personal favourites. Available as a limited screen print with download. Featuring: [...]

Because Jonnie Common‘s installation is going to involvve eight channels of transmitted FM, it will be an octophonic performance, hence the working title for the transmitter is now officially Octomitter! So. I have all 8 boards working nicely, built to Guts v0.3.2 spec, which is almost ready for release, pending the instructable. I spent some [...]

On the behest of Jonnie Common [new album Master of None out now), I have today been investigating the feasability of broadcasting using multiple Nifties in close range, with good results today. I tried this at the time of the Common Thread deployment last autumn and got all sorts of interference troubles (a kind of [...]

I have removed the wiki features temporarily while I sort out some server problems. The hack and develop page for niftymitter weas subject to some malicious activity so that has been reverted to a previous version, which might mean it is out of date for now. Aplogies! Am getting it sorted as quickly as I [...]

Ooft, sorry about that. Makerfaire was a smashing success for all of us, Brian and Annalisa and I went down as a team of three representing, well, ourselves, and met some fantastic folk and saw some wild things. My fave was definitely Paul Duddy’s watches that he was inviting people to personally cast in jelly/glycerine. [...]

Have finally got round to uploading lamps. Release v0.22 is not quite there but good enough to release as a ‘download and make’ and v0.23 which I am awaiting back from the CNC cutters, is up as the current development release. Here are some pictures from the development thus far: I tried getting some cut [...]

There is suddenly a lot of activity at the Open Hardware Logo thread (a logo to go with the open hardware definition, which i have endorsed). I put in a couple of submissions a couple of weeks ago, and thought I might in with a chance for defining this graphic that could potentially be a [...]

I just got a prototype back from the Manchester Fablab of the Gig sleeve in lovely hard ABS. Unfortunately the only innards I have are currently with Mr. Loudon so will have to wait to test it. Initially it looks good though, and a lovely finely ridged finish to it. This was printed on their [...]

The other news is of course that Openthing will be at Makerfaire in Newcastle on the 12th/13th March. A team of us are going down and we’ll be helping people to make Hacker Wallets and showing the Niftymitter, with some exclusive new sleeve designs, as well as Clampalamp, the clampable lamp. I’m pretty darn excited [...]