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  "date": "2023-08-17T13:30:00+02:00",
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  "room": "Hardware Hacking Village",
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  "title": "Learn to Solder / Digital Music Synthesis workshop with ArduTouch music synthesizer kit",
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  "track": "Milliways",
  "type": "Live Workshop",
  "language": "en",
  "abstract": "_**Anyone can learn to solder!**_  \r\n_And anyone can learn to make music, sound (and noise!) with computer chips!_  \r\nAll participants will easily learn all of this by making an **[ArduTouch music synthesizer](https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#ardutouch)** from a kit.",
  "description": "**Learn to solder** by making a way-cool, powerful music synthesizer, and **learn how to make cool music, sound, (and noise!) with computer chips**. (The fancy word for making sound with a computer chip is _**D**igital **S**ignal **P**rocessing_.)  \r\n\r\n**[ArduTouch](https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#ardutouch)** is an [open hardware](https://github.com/maltman23/ArduTouch) **Arduino**-compatible music synthesizer kit with a built-in **Touch** Keyboard, and with built-in speaker/amplifier. It is a really nice performing musical instrument.  \r\n\r\nThis workshop is for **total newbies** to learn to solder.  \r\nThis workshop is for **total newbies** to make their own ArduTouch music synthesizer.  \r\nThis workshop is for **total newbies** to learn how to make music, sound (and noise!) with computer chips.  \r\nAttendees take their completed synthesizer home at the end of the workshop.  \r\n\r\nThe ArduTouch comes pre-programmed with a way cool synthesizer. And I will show you how to re-program it with other way cool (and totally different) synthesizers.  \r\n\r\nFor ages 10 - 100.\r\n\r\nTaught by [Mitch Altman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman)  \r\n\r\n_Optional: Bring your laptop, if you can._  \r\n\r\n**Workshop Itinerary**:\r\n* Brief intro to music synthesis.\r\n* Simple intro to **D**igital **S**ignal **P**rocessing for _total beginners_ to understand how to make sound (and noise!) with computer chips.\r\n* Then we will learn to solder. Don't let this scare you! I've taught tens of thousands of people to solder, most of whom have never made anything before in their lives. It is actually a very easy skill to learn. It is also very useful.\r\n* Then we will each make our own [ArduTouch](https://cornfieldelectronics.com/cfe/projects.php#ardutouch) music synthesizer from a kit.\r\n* Now that we each have our own working ArduTouch synthesizer, we will set up the free and open-source Arduino software on our laptops (if you bring one) -- Windows, Linux, and MacOS are all fine!\r\n* Very brief intro to Arduino for re-programming your ArduTouch board with cool new sounds.\r\n* _Jam!_\r\n\r\n**Materials costs**:<br>\r\nThe workshop is free, but if you would like to partake in the hands-on aspects of the workshop, Mitch will have ArduTouch kits for **\u20ac35**.  \r\n_Optional: USB-Serial Cable for re-programming ArduTouch (and many other projects): 5 \u20ac._",
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      "avatar": "https://pretalx.c3voc.de/media/avatars/Mitch_Altman_photo_by_Dennis_van_Zuijlekom_Bmfxwfx.jpg",
      "biography": "<strong>Mitch Altman</strong> is an international hacker, inventor, entrepreneur, author, mentor, best known for starting Noisebridge hackerspace and inventing TV-B-Gone, which turns off TVs in public places.<br>\r\n<br>\r\nWikipedia page:<br>\r\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_Altman<br>\r\n<br>\r\nTEDxBrussels talk: \"The Hackerspace Movement\":<br>\r\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkiX7R1-kaY",
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