we built simple circuits boards for flashing LEDs, photosensitive sensors, and light switches using velleman kits, and basic soldering material (soldering gun, solder, the infamous 'undo', clamps and wire).


some boards sizzled, even sometimes a small cloud of smoke, others were successful and LEDs blinked and flashed!


some images:

Launch Lounge Playground
Venue: foyer STWST
days: thursday, 12th - saturday, 14th
time: 10:30 -14:00
facilitators: b#, kriztina, magde

LAUNCH LOUNGE

the playground knows no onedimensional knowledge but includes approaches,
knowledge and the creativity of its participants only.

the playground provides things, technics and materials for free use. the
difference to a workshop is, that we want to encourage to simply play with
things without the fear of not knowing or doing something 'wrong' - in the
playground the categories of right or wrong don't exist anymore.

every day we set a topic, a goal that we want to reach by evening. the process
of doing is more important than the outcome.
at the end of each day people present what they have been doing during the day

A workshop with cym, exploring the city Linz, transforming it into a web reconstruction.

The workshop will consist of 2 parts:

The technical part of the workshop will focus on creating a simple website using HTML and style-sheets.
The content part will use the city as a starting point to create a website using HTML and style sheets.

The workshop is open for anyone with very little or no knowledge of HTML/style-sheets, but will also be interesting for anyone with basic knowledge of webdesign who would like to play around with different ways of presenting content.

Sara / Rotterdam

We build a motherboard using hardboard and jewelry-looking things, emphasis on handicraft, art and politics.

Donna / Rotterdam
donna_at_genderchangers_dot_org

No skills or experience required.
The Lab will take about 3 hours.
We'll take apart and computer and put it back together again.
Juggle the Jargon
What is a gender changer? What is a Motherboard? What do the terms Master and Slave denote?
What is firmware or the BIOS for that matter?
We will provide the hardware, screwdrivers and torches. Please bring along paper, pencil and lots of questions.

Handout: http://www.genderchangers.org/docs.html

diy sextoys
Orit Kruglanski /Barcelona
orit.kruglanski_at_gmail.com
Carla Peirano Figueroa /Barcelona
customazer_at_gmail.com

http://www.bricolajesexual.net

Orit and Carla will give an introductory performance lecture about the history of sextoys as well as the connection between hacking your old CD drive and mending your socks, and how all of this can turn into the physical pleasure of building an alternative model to todays boring consumer society.

In the playLab we will make our old motors into our brand new vibrators, learning a couple of things about circuits and taking a new look at the objects that surround us.

animated avatar etc07 Friday morning, 2-3 hours, taught by helen (remotely) & marischka (on-site) & perhaps assistance from urska & donna? No skills required, fun & creative.

UpStage (http://www.upstage.org.nz) is a web-based venue for live online performance. remote players collaborate in real time using avatars, props, backdrops, text and text2speech to create a live performance for an online audience. the audience interact with the performance via a text chat tool.