On Saturday, Tom and I went to Hive13, a hackerspace here in Cincinnati, for a Bending Workshop. Many different skill levels were represented, with me at the noob end of the spectrum having never used a soldering iron before. We made these Bending Buddies (pictured complete below) that allow you to patch and probe circuits for sounds. Tom [...]

After scouring this photo at high resolution, I’m fairly confident this box manages security systems. Whenever I see wires and chips and control panels such as this, I can’t shake the thought of Fembots from Bionic Woman.

Laptop flickered and made alarming beep noise again. Dead. Call to support, this time with proper screwdriver on hand. Back in business but lost a tiny screw in the process. Support fella said, “Just pop into the Apple Store for a little screw. You should be in and out in 5 minutes.”

Tom experiments in the studio.