Tinker it now!

Our good friends at Roomware in Amsterdam are offering a one day workshop this coming Saturday.

“The Roomware Project is an open-source framework for interactive spaces. It allows developers of multiple origins to enhance any venue or event using technologies such as BlueTooth and RFID.

“Roomware” is an application running in a defined space. For instance: linking people’s photographs to the screens of a club, sharing musical tastes with the DJ, finding other interesting people on your mobile phone, a photo booth activated by the entry tickets of two people, etc”

Sign up on Upcoming!

Lovely video tutorial on how to get BlinkM to talk to Arduino.

Sorry this blog has been a bit boring lately, but that’s not because we’re not busy here at Tinker.it :)

If you didn’t manage to get into our last Beginners Arduino workshop, well join the next one!

Lead by Alex Zivanovic with the help of Benjamin Tomlinson, it should be great fun.
Taking place on February 23rd-24th tickets are as usual £90 for professionals and £75 for students.

Check out all the details here.

If you’re dying to get going on driving more than LEDs with your newly (or old for that matter) acquired Arduino board, try this Arduino + Actuators workshop that will take place in London on February 2-3rd.

Led by Alex Zivanovic who has lots of experience in robotics and mechanics, this is what we would qualify as a more advanced workshop where you need at least need to master the basics of Arduino.

Tickets are £120 for professionals and £85 for students.

All details here.

Massimo, after his interview on NPR was awarded the Demented Genius Award by C|Net News.

Should I be worried ? :P

To ramp things up towards our upcoming Toy Hacking workshop Massimo spoke this morning on The Bryant Park Project on NPR live from New York and I was on the phone live to NewsTalk an Irish radio channel.

Listen to Massimo

Listen to Alex

If you didn’t manage to join us last November, here’s your chance again!

Aimed at students, artists, and designers or anyone who wants to learn the basics of Arduino, simple electronics and building interactive projects , this 2 day intimate workshop will be lead by Nick Weldin.

Nick has been involved in hacking for a while, and specifically with children with learning disabilities and creating tools to support them. He started by assisting the last workshop and now we’re very happy to let him lead a few this year.

This will be the first of a series of monthly beginners workshops we’ll be offering. There’s only 10 places available, so sign up quickly!

This workshop will take place on the 26th-27th of January 2008 in London. (Location yet to be defined)

All details here.

Update: Upcoming page for the event.