Happy Howduino hackers
Written by Nicky Getgood on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 ( Start discussion )
Tags: antonio roberts, arvydas, fizzpop, fizzPOPHowduino, genzaichi, hellocatfood, howduino, nikki pugh, Vivid
Here’s some happy hackers at the Howduino day in VIVID on Saturday, arranged by fizzPOP. Don’t ask me what they’re doing, because I really don’t know. Soldering summin, I think. All day the gallery was full of people tinkering to make normal things act oddly – like teddy bears turning evil, bubble-blowers responding to Twitter updates and, in Antonio Roberts’ case, a cardboard tube that noisily responds to light (a bit like a Thingamagoop):
To get the low-down from someone who seriously paid attention in class, read Arvydas’ account of hacking a toy car, which he successfully did to make it do this:






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