Hardware Hacking

Language: English (no simultaneous translation)
Duration: 3 hours.

Directed to those interested in the converging of residual electronics and digital processing.

Requirements: basic knowledge of electronics and intermediate knowledge of computing.

Those who take part in the workshop must bring:

A portable radio with batteries that suits the following characteristics:
It works and you don’t mind breaking it
Preferably cheap.
Tunes AM frequency, which is more important than FM frequency.
Has an analog tuner, not digital, not scanning, not button tuner.
The bigger, the better for working with it..
Old radios sound better than new ones..
Has at least one speaker and more than one earphone port.
Must work with batteries.
It doesn’t have an alarm clock with an extra battery that connects to mains.
Two or more sound toys running on batteries.
Choose cheap toys that you don’t mind breaking.
No too small and with their own speaker.
Sampled sounds such as voices, animal sounds or instruments are better than simple beeps.
The more buttons, the better (although keyboards offer limited possibilities)
Must run on batteries.
A pair of speakers.
Three 9 volts. batteries.
A small piece of corroded metal.
A fine solder tip.
Tools such as cutting pliers, cutter and pocketknife.
A small amplifier for monitoring (computer speakers, ipod speakers, etc.) that works with batteries or connected to mains.

The CMM will give out materials requested by the professor. Radios and toys are to be brought by the students.

Oct 3, 2009

Oct 5, 2009

This event has reached full capacity, please register to get on the waiting list

Contact:

Multimedia Center

Hugo Blancas

Phone 41 55 00 00 Ext. 1247

Email:

Office hours: 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.