Author Archives: mahto

Documentation lighting workshop at Hack Pittsburgh

Posted on February 3, 2010 by mahto

UPDATE: The Documentation Lighting event is canceled due to the impending inclement weather. Stay tuned, it will be rescheduled! Want to present your projects online in the best light? Frustrated with the way your documentation photos come out? Need a … Continue reading →

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Building a wall for a workshop

Posted on January 31, 2010 by mahto

We spent the greater part of the day building out a wall to section off the workshop area at Hack Pittsburgh. This is how it went!

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Design idea: Parrot wire strippers

Posted on January 30, 2010 by mahto

Seriously, is anyone marketing tools like this?

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Converting an old organ to MIDI

Posted on January 28, 2010 by mahto

You might remember that some years ago, I found a discarded organ and brought it home. Well, it sat around for a year, then I converted it to MIDI, then I moved across the country and only brought the keyboards, … Continue reading →

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Building an Atari Punk Console kit

Posted on January 28, 2010 by mahto

Matt, Andy and I built our Atari Punk Console kits tonight, so that we are ready for Synth Night 2 at Hack Pittsburgh. Hope to see you there! Video encoding deets after the break.

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Old project: Intellaboy, a portable Intellivision

Posted on January 23, 2010 by mahto

Here’s a project I made back in 2006: a portable Intellivision. I took a cheapo LCD TV and combined it with a 25-in-1 Intellivision game toy, and managed to cram the whole thing into the shell of a broken gameboy. … Continue reading →

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Aluminum shaft with captive ring

Posted on January 19, 2010 by mahto

Lathe experiment #2, machined out of a piece of solid aluminum rod. Basically, the ring is stuck because it was carved out of the rod. A collaboration with Matt Stultz.

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