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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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. [...]