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 be good [...]

For those of you who can’t make it.

There are three tables, one on the theme of Download, one on Make & Adapt, and one on Share.

And a nice big vinyl cut on the wall.

Malcolm’s beautiful promo photo blown up.

The Share table. There are now the A5 cards with the testers’ results on them here, and [...]

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 seemed [...]

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 [...]

I’ve been busy preparing stuff for the exhibition in Dundee this week that ties up my Arts Council funded residency with DJCAD. The exhibition is called Innovation and Creative Development in Craft and runs from Thursday 10th June to Saturday 26th June in the Dalhousie Building, University of Dundee, Old Hawkhill, Balfour Street, Dundee, DD1 [...]

Have made some progress today with the two next versions of Niftymitter:  The plan is to update the general PCB layout from 0.24/0.25, add the volume attenuator feature and improve the tuning interaction, and call this Niftymitter Guts, which will be v0.3.
Then am working on two new sleeve designs: one for the home, called Home,  [...]

Here’s what I’m thinking for the next version of Niftymitter – a bit of a rejig, with the sleeve rotated in relation to the contents so that one can slide things back and forth to gain access to the increased number of controls (tuning, volume, on/off). Signified here by pinboard pins.

Jonny has sent in these pictures, and some more information about his setup:
“Here’s some pics of the nifty meter in action. We use a yamaha mixer at our gigs. We plug our mics and guitars into it and also an ipod with our ‘bossa nova’ backing tracks.
The outputs are sent to powered speakers and a [...]

In light of the results from some of the testing, I am considering diverging niftymitter into two families: one for portable/home use, and a more robust version for use with PA and musical equipment. Both will have an improved retuning process and the portable version will have a input volume control, [...]

Have been updating the parts list for v0.25, including trying to find a better trimcap that can actually be adjusted by hand, or hacked in such a way as to make that possible. Found this one on rapid that might be more suitable.
Have also ordered in some hand adjustable 50k resistors to implement Andrew’s attenuator [...]