Howduino Leeds
I’ve been to a few Howduino events since Adrian McEwen and Thom Shannon started organising + running them and always thought it would be good to get one happening in Leeds. So I nudged them and said we could help out with the organising, funding and arranging. What? Howduino is a free Arduino based event...
FriiSpray LASER cans
It’s been a busy few months at the Jam Jar HQ – we’ve been working on getting some new virtual graffiti cans working with new software and hardware. In January we started testing out the Nintendo Wii nunchuck boards as a way of getting cap pressure data out of the cans – check out this...
Open projection screen
Projection screens can be expensive, and we needed one to use with our FriiSpray virtual graffiti system. After looking into some different screens available on the market, we decided we could probably have a good go at making one of our own. We wanted to make the project open so others can make, use, modify...
Electronics workshops at Action Factory Arts, Blackburn
In October the Jam Jar Collective ran a series of electronics workshops at the fabulous Action Factory Arts space in Blackburn, as part of their ‘Art Bites’ scheme. On the first day we started with a brief introduction to electronics and continued with LED throwie making and also some simple circuits for clip-on lights. We...
Platform 11+ Theatre Project
On the 4th of September Stuart went along to Budapest for the first annual meeting of the Platform 11+ theatre project, working as a partner to Pilot Theatre – a York theatre company that is based in York’s Theatre Royal. Budapest was our first time working closely with Pilot Theatre and it is a massive...