[Nettime-ro] call for participants: DIY STANDUINO WORKSHOP - electronics for interactive art projects

[Rarita Zbranca/AltArt <rarita@altart.org>]

DIY STANDUINO WORKSHOP - electronics for interactive art projects
Cluj, 23 May 2012

When: Wednesday 23 May 2012, starting at 10:00 (after the workshop 
participants will give a concert/jam session around 20:00)
Where: hosted by AltArt Foundation, at Fabrica de Pensule, Str Henri 
Barbusse 59-61, Cluj
Capacity:  maximum 10 people
Price: 10 eur/person, is covering the costs for the parts and board to 
build Standuino - other used parts will be paid extra
Information: http://www.standuino.eu/
Language: English
Applications: until *21.5.2012* by email with the name of the 
participant to standuino@gmail.com <mailto:standuino@gmail.com>
What to bring: Ideas what I can build on Standuino! and laptop or any 
computer

Workshop: Arduino and Open source hardware introduced the amazing world 
of electronics to wide range of creative people. But what is the 
situation 6 years after the launch of the project? Loads of tutorials 
and thousands threads in the forums. How to orientate? How to build 
simple things? How not to pay so much money for one purpose Arduino 
shields to make multipurpose stable device?

We try to answer these questions with Standuino! We developed the 
Standuino board according the legacy of our region - the Czech republic 
- where getting electronic parts is easy and cheap and where the 
knowledge doesn't lay on the internet, but in our fathers and in their 
magazines.

With the help of all of this we extracted that basic circuits that 
usually creative people need to make their projects. We were already 
commissioned by many artists to make simple things. Turning on and off 
lights or devices, movement with motors, connecting simple sensors, 
sound playback and so on. This area is being known as physical computing 
in the western world. From our experience it is really unstable to build 
stable devices on Arduino and breadboards without soldering.

You will learn:
-how to solder
-understanding of basic electronic parts
-how to make different things - in printed brochure participants will 
find basic circuits and will understand how to make them work
-motor control, AC switching, simple sensors, lights, basic interface 
(buttons, pots)
-how to program - we will introduce the basics of open source 
programming that will make the things talk to each other
-you will build your own Standuino with functionality you need and you 
take it home

Please bring your ideas of what you would like to make within the area 
of electronics and we will try to adapt it to what is possible to build 
within the one day or we will make suggestions what to make further.

Standuino is the inovative force in hand-made electronic musicand open 
source hardware as well as theoretically and historically driven 
movementthat results in artworks, bands, workshops, happenings and writings.
Standuino started as a clone board of popular Arduino but adapted to 
radicalDIY approachof eastern region (=bastl). With this powerful tool 
it became part of many art installations and enabled our research team 
to build prototypes of many different devices most importantly musical 
instruments.
The whole concept of Standuinois inspired and covered by the story of a 
pioneer of media art-- Standa Filip. The name Standuino goes mainly from 
Standas name but also stands for what Standuino is best at -- the 
standalone applications.

organised by:
AltArt Foundation, Cluj, Str Henri Barbusse 59-61, mob +40 723 263072, 
www.altart.org

Remake (www.remakeme.eu)
mediaLab 4AM ( www.forum4am.cz <http://www.forum4am.cz> )
Graukllktv o.s. ( www.graukllktv.eu <http://www.graukllktv.eu> )

The workshop is part of the REMAKE  - Rethinking Media Art in 
K(C)ollaborative Environments project. The project is financed by the 
European Union Culture Programme (2007-13).

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