A feast of electronic fun, education and diversions.

Kits

Vibrati Punk Console Logo

Vibrati Punk Console - 2011


The Vibrati Punk Console is a fun electronic sound and music kit suitable for beginners and more experienced builders. It is an evolution of the common Atari Punk Console with an added Low Frequency Oscillator to give a richer range of sounds.

The Vibrati Punk Console is available to buy at lushprojects.com

Courses and Projects

P.E.R.T.

Personal Electronic Retro Telegram (P.E.R.T.) - 2011


A quirky, retro easter present for my lovely girlfriend based on a 1970s HP LED display.
Electronics for Artists

Electronics for Artists - 2010


A weekend hands-on workshop covering basic electronics and Arduino. Fun projects that teach practical skills that can be used to build interactive installations. Suitable for those with no past experience.
Guitar Tuner

Guitar Tuner for a Blind User - 2010


A modified guitar tuner for a friend. Provides audible indication of the tuning.
Electronics for Absolute beginners

Electronics for Absolute Beginners - 2010


A one-day electronics course with lots of  fun projects. Intended to get newcomers interested and enthusiastic and capable to go off and make their own discoveries.
Video Bend

Video Circuit Bending - 2009


Making innocent video equipment do stuff it was never meant to.
Lunar Lander

Lunar Lander - 2009


Just in time for the 40th anniversary of the moon landings comes Lunar Lander.

A video game without the video

Starring Emma Freud as mission control
Atari Punk Console

Atari Punk Console - 2009


A nice little circuit to teach circuit assembly skills and have fun with basic electronics.

For a kit which enhances the Atari Punk Console and uses a printed circuit board for easier construction try the Vibrati Punk Console.
Honkatron

Honkatron - 2008


The honkatron is a circuit bending project.
Cyclepong 2

Cyclepong 2.0 - 2008


Cyclepong 2.0 is my first arcade machine. It's the classic game Pong played with exercise bikes. As featured in lots of blogs and with it's own cult following.
Cyclepong

Cyclepong version 1 - 2007/8


Cycles + Pong = Cyclepong.

Updating the classic arcade game Pong.
Tape hack

Tape Hack - 2007


Hacking an 80s icon for interesting audio impact.
Chill Rucksack

Chill Rucksack - 2007


A simple hack to use EL-wire to do signwriting on a rucksack for Big Chill 2007.
Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice - 2006


How to build a six-axis 3D controller to compete with Sony and Nintendo out of old computer mice.
Bongokitchen

Mazda Bongo


A very simple DIY kitchen unit to fit in the rear of a Mazda Bongo. Also available in PDF.

Also here Mazda Bongo schematics and parts database.
Cyclepong

Hat Hack - 2005/6


Essential wear for the summer festival season.

As featured in Hackaday, Engadget, Make blog and Top 5 Strangest Pong Creations on TechEBlog (only made it in to number 5 sadly).
Mac ITX

Mac-ITX - 2004


My old Mac SE/30 modified to use a mini-ITX motherboard. A very stealthy mod. As documented on mini-itx.com and featured in Wired and boing boing.
Quiet Tivo

A silent tivo (not)  


An attempt to modify my UK series 1 Tivo to allow the fan to be removed. Unfortunately didn't really work.