Theme

Hardware & making

Physical prototyping — soldering, printing, milling, hacking — usually in service of one of the other strands.

  1. Blue 1/10 scale RC car fitted with a tall camera mast and electronics, parked on a gravel path

    Special Delivery

    Dreaming of micrologistics

  2. Two green rowboats and a yellow pedal boat pulled up on a sandy shore beside calm water

    BoatSense

    Island transport made a little smarter

  3. Bright workshop room with a long central worktable, large-format printer, 3D printer, and tools mounted on the back wall

    Openlab Make

    Prototyping infrastructure & support

  4. Close-up of hands holding a smartphone and a pink NFC-tagged card over a printed map

    Prototyping in hardware

    Making stuff helps you understand it better

  5. Blueprint-style diagram of a cartoon dog with components labelled motion sensor, speaker, button, antenna and MP3 player

    Zeebo

    Hacking habits instead of APIs at the Health Hack Day

  6. Max/MSP patch with labelled MIDI playback and Arduino control sections wired to four coloured LED toggles

    Chopin Hero

    Interactive tutor for participatory theatre

  7. Video still: a man in a glass workshop holding a tall hand-blown green glass vessel on a worktable

    nocraft

    Exploring how to add interactive layers to hand blown glass