MzTEK is coming to Manchester!  We are excited to be partnering with our old friends SPACE to run our DIY PACMAN workshop in this years Future Everything Festival of Art, Music and Culture.

We will be participating in the festival as part of the Handmade, digital craft fair taking place in Manchester’s Victoria Baths.

The Workshop: DIY PACMAN

Create LED light patterns for your own PACMAN game whilst learning how to use the basic electronic components (switch, potentiometer, resistor, capacitor etc) and introduce how to control a micro-controller, Atmega 168 using the open-source Arduino software.

In this workshop you will create your own lighting patterns, such as texts and images and also develop a simple game, using a bespoke pre-designed led-matrix circuit.

Where & When

14th May 2011 – 10am – 4pm
Manchester’s Victoria Baths

Materials Needed

All you will need is:
– a power supply (output: 12V, over 1A): Yes! Finally something to do with all those old power supplies!
– a laptop if you can, with Arduino software installed.

Prerequisites

No prior computer programming experience is needed.

To Register

As usual, this is a women only workshop. Please contact Future Everything to register, http://futureeverything.org/art/diy-pacwoman-a-mztek-workshop-for-women/ .

The Instructor

This fantastic workshop will be lead by Eunjoo Shin, www.ejoo.org, www.comms.me Eunjoo Shin, an artist, explores interaction design, sound and public installation. Her art works have been featured in many venues, including FILE festival 2009 in Sao Paulo, Peadhead at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York and Seoul Art Center in Seoul. Her work, Vocal Trio was selected as one of the best interaction desgins by the Korean Federation of Design Associations, and published in the design yearbook, CREATIO 2009.