I’ve also updated the guts source. both the Guts v0.3 and Home v0.2 are now consolidated into their own .zip archives, containing all source needed to make that version (including old but valid documents). I’m finding that the best way to operate now is to simpoly start a new version by copying all the data [...]

A few belated photos from Niftymitter Home v0.2, spurred on by Ben’s email. Simply hacking in a potentiometer for volume control. I built it out from the PCB with a little cardboard. The trimcap is accessible through the hole – have still not sussed out how to get a nice control knob for it, any [...]

I have been making up wallets on and off for while now ever since Nina at the Electron Club showed me how to do them using acetate PCBs from old keyboards and gaffa tape. The gaffa didn’t last very long so I quickly progressed to insulation tape and machine stitching. In this latest version I’ve [...]

Niftymitter & Radios @ Common Thread from Open Thing on Vimeo. Niftymitter Home v0.2

I know things have been very quiet here – I am quite a bit busier with musical activities at the moment and am otherwise chasing paid work, which sadly has meant that Openthing is taking a back seat currently. I have however been meeting up with fellow freelancer and Open Design advocate Brian Loudon of [...]

One of the first things I referenced when I started this project was the ‘Maker’s Bill of Rights’ document that Make Magazine published some time ago – a kind of set of standards for makers of open objects such that said objects can be sure to be repairable and hackable. As with most things to [...]

Here is my first model of Niftymitter Mic – a cordless mic vresion of niftymitter in response to Nathaniel’s testing. My initial sketches, done at some point during the symposium. The mic would be behind that dotty bit in the top left, so you can hold the thing like a dictaphone. I guess it might [...]

Before I came up for the exhibition I did a bit of quick layout development on Niftymitter Home in the hope that it might be ready for the exhibition. It wasn’t, but things are in a good place I think: It sits quite well in either horizontal orientation – which is how the 0.24 versions [...]

Hello. I am in the exhibition space in the Dalhousie building at Dundee University from 9-5 today and tomorrow, do pop in and say hello. This morning I have been mainly re-broadcasting Solid Steel in the exhibition space and working up a version of niftymitter with a built in mic in response to Nathaniel’s results. [...]

Have just come across this Open Design event happening in Berlin this week, from the Open Design Berlin blog: The DMY Maker Lab will be a celebration of Open Design through practice, presentations, and collaborative action, created by instigators and participants alike. It’ll be held at the DMY International Design Festival from 9-13 June 2010. [...]