H3: Toy Hacking
This page documents the Toy Hacking workshop that we organised on January 12th-13th 2007, in London, lead by Adam Somlai-Fisher (see also his work with Usman Haque on the same subject) and CTO of Tinker.it Massimo Banzi.
The space was generously sponsored by Moving Brands.
The following videos present the outcome of a fabulous weekend spent learning about how to be a kid again.
tinker machine from Russell Davies.
Action man hack from Fiona Ambrose.
Arty toys by Will Carey, Thomas Thwaites and Martin Redigolo.
Xbox 360 controller used to map an Atari controller from Matt Sephton.
Xbox guitar enhanced by 3 extra buttons to really rock out by Kenneth Lim.
Spin the screen is a toy and Processing hack by Nigel Crawley.
Tilting messages hack using the magic wand to modulate the beat of the voice from a pre-recorded message. The beat is changed by a tilt sensor. Toy hack by Martin Redigolo.
Remote Bubble-making machine from by David Chatting, Craig McCahill and Robert Lenne.
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[...] to worry though we’ll be organising a Toy Hacking workshop in London again, the last one was too much [...]
[...] Dancing Robot di John Nussey che è stato costruito per la prima volta lo scorso Gennaio durante un toy hacking workshop, la Remote Bubble Machine di Dave Chating e il Brockenspiel di Brock Craft. Ci siamo infine [...]
[...] ran a lovely toy hacking workshop last year and its our great pleasure to announce this year’s Toy Hacking workshop on January 24th and [...]
[...] here). It´s just a quick overview, but you can find more detailed videos of each project here at tinker.it. The idea of toy hacking is not actually new, but I still like it. Just go home and look around [...]