HOME MADE 2026 Participants

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PLEASE write a few words about yourself, and link to some info about your works and interests.

Then also add ideas what you want to work on, learn from others, or can share with the participant community.

Kim Đoàn Quốc

During SGMK Homemade 2026, Kim Đoàn Quốc collaborated with Thomas Amberg, Professor at University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland FHNW, specialised in the Internet of Things. For a project about long distance memory and environmental damage, Kim asked for help from the very generous soldering and programming community of Homemade, Thomas answered. Trading electronic chips for others in the camp, looking through datasheets and programming tutorials online, accompanied with Simon’s percussion rehearsal as the moon was rising over the mountains in front of them, they put together a connected device that would light up an LED ring when rain falls on Kim’s grandmother’s tomb in Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu, Vietnam, according to online weather broadcast. This prototype will be reproduced a few times for a series of jade stone and steel lamps connected to places in Vietnam interlaced with the French Vietnamese Diaspora and Kim’s personal history.

github readme for the esp32 code used for the device :

• https://github.com/tamberg/esp32-weather-led

Kim also participated in the Solar Bird and RubeDrum workshop. She arrived almost clueless about electronics at the summer camp and left with the precious gift of shared knowledge and new friends. During the camp, Kim gave a sensitive cartography workshop to the community, trying to bring in her knowledge about collective organization and group care to the group. It came out as a beautiful conversation about the many different places and generations from where each participant speaks and how this week in the mountains together can settle common grounds, like the love of swimming in lakes.

Kim Đoàn Quốc lives and works in Paris, where she is a member of DOC! and the Vietnam Dioxine Collective. Her artistic practice spans various media: installations, video and performance. Her body of work juxtaposes technology and industry with screens, and metal with natural materials such as wood and dried flowers, to explore the relationships between humans and non-humans, with a particular interest in the concept of protected spaces, both politically and ecologically.

• https://www.kimdoanquoc.studio/

At the moment, she is collaborating with Anthropologist and Geographer Marvin Freyne on the project Foliating Memories, about agent orange, ecocide and diaspora memories.

• https://rhizomes.hypotheses.org/4422

projects :

• I'd love to find a way to build a system that turns on/off a powerful LED device according to environmental data (from a sensor or from online data) for a sculpture I want to make in autumn. I have a bunch of old modules and pieces from an old vidéoprojecteur.

• I should bring a midi/Arduino device that allows us to make a midi controller with whatever we'd like to use in the use bank of sensors and modules that will be there. I have resolume on my laptop and we can do interactive projection mapping if there's a vidéoprojecteur available

workshops I can offer : sensitive collective cartography. In 2 hours drawing the IRL and online space on witch each of us organize/work and think about political/artistic/tech bridges between all these. I'm bringing the paper and pencils for it.

I could offer a welding workshop if there's a way to find material on site. I didn't gather enough energy to bring my welding machine and my grinder by train from Paris haha.

what I want to learn : I would like to learn a bit of programming and electronics so I can incorporate interactive elements in my sculptures when I'll be back in France ✨

Adam Zaretzky

Zaretsky is a Wet-Lab Art Practitioner mixing Ecology, Biotechnology, Non-human Relations, Body Performance and Gastronomy. Zaretsky stages lively, hands-on bioart production labs based on topics such as: foreign species invasion (pure/impure), radical food science (edible/inedible), jazz bioinformatics (code/flesh), tissue culture (undead/semi-alive), transgenic design issues (traits/desires), interactive ethology (person/machine/non-human) and physiology (performance/stress). A former researcher at the MIT department of biology, for the past 25 years Zaretsky has been teaching an experimental bioart class called VivoArts at: San Francisco State University (SFSU), SymbioticA (UWA), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), University of Leiden’s The Arts and Genomic Centre (TAGC) and with the Waag Society. He has also taught DIY-IGM (Do-It-Yourself Inherited Genetic Modification of the Human Genome) at New York University (NYU) and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He also runs a public life arts school: VASTAL (The Vivoarts School for Transgenic Aesthetics Ltd.) His art practice focuses on an array of legal, ethical, social and libidinal implications of biotechnological materials and methods with a focus on transgenic humans.

• http://www.emutagen.com/
• https://www.hackteria.org/projects/artist-in-residence-adam-zaretsky/
• https://thgap.hackteria.org

Nupur Maneesh Doshi

During the SGMK Homemade 2026 and the follow up retreat at EAR, Nupur Maneesh Doshi is hosted as BEAK critic-in-residence working on a creative writing project based on Science Fictionesque poetic reflections on Bioart, Do-It-With-Others, Bioethics meets Travelogue and Speculative literary reflections. Earlier this year Nupur also was incorporated into the Kickoff of Co-Laboratories, hired to pen a Technobiological Futures review article, with her curatorial and critical commentary published in English and French through Makery.info.

• Epistemic sludge: the ontology of the post-institutional lab

Nupur Doshi is a curator and researcher based in Mumbai, India. Her work explores para-art trajectories, transgressing mediums and traditional materiality. She examines provocations from critical philosophy and transdisciplinary studies across counter-histories and speculative futures. She is the Fall '26 Draper Scholar at the Experimental Humanities (XE) Department at NYU. She has also been awarded the Global South Scholarship for the Art & Curatorial Practice Certificate Program at The New Centre for Research & Practice.

• https://bioartethics.xyz/beak-news/f/nupur-maneesh-doshi---beak-critic-in-residence-colabs-thailand
• https://nupurdoshi.hotglue.me/

Wun Ting Chan

Wun Ting Chan praticing safety first at Bitwäscherei

During SGMK Homemade 2026, Ting joined the SolarBird workshop, where they updated the code for the PCB bird with a pseudo-random timing routine so that it chirps at irregular intervals rather than following the same predictable rhythm. The code is available here for future usage:

• Solar Bird Github Repo

They also produced the first short-form video in an ongoing series addressing ethical debates around IVF and related reproductive technologies. The project takes as its starting point their Simplified Chinese translation of Dr. Adam Zaretsky’s Human Germline Gene Editing is Bioart: An Open Letter to Lulu and Nana. Through the lens of their experience translating the open letter, the video series covers the ethical questions raised by the text, and explores how reproductive technologies are discussed, who gets to make decisions about their use, and what happens when the ability to intervene in human reproduction moves from treatment toward genetic modification.

• Watch the Video

Wun Ting Chan (陳琬婷) is a computer scientist and artist from Hong Kong. They hold a B.F.A. in Visual Communications from Northwest College of Art and a B.S. in Computer Science from The Evergreen State College, and are currently pursuing an M.S. in Computer Science at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences. Chan is also a student researcher at the Agentic Learning AI Lab, advised by Dr. Mengye Ren. Chan’s artistic work examines sensory overload and ambient paranoia as defining conditions of contemporary digital life, using technology itself as both medium and subject. They explore how artificial intelligence, internet censorship, and platform surveillance shape perception and influence real-world behavior.

• https://ting.directory

SalomeK

based in Zürich

I bring

• EUROLITE SBPO-3240B Stromverteiler +1m Kabel (big)
• my Brushograph – Painting Machine Lab
• Gouache Paints, Paper 70x50cm, Brushes
• Finger Textile Paints and Pencils (left overs)
• my Electronic Collection from workshops (needs fixing and extensions)

Interests

• Discussion and exchange about world in translation and transformation …decentralized, connected, local, hands-on, perspective changing, surprising, providing confidence, edges, stability, potentials, group dynamics, sensitive experiences, what holds it together, fears and other forces...
• Painting Lab, Meet People, Learn Stuff, Kids Stuff, Nature, Dancing, Yoga
• Making some connections for further projects

Zach P

I am:

• First-time Home Made camper who will now type too much......
• Artist from U.S. working with sound installations, performance, and radio (mostly field recording and processing, including "expanded" transducers like contact mics, hydrophones, RF listeners, etc)
• Teacher/technician at an art college (Cooper Union School of Art in NYC).
• I share documentation of my artwork and technical resources on my website https://zachpoff.com
• Also bringing my son (10 yrs) who is learning to solder and always willing to help out with fun projects

I plan:

• Continue work-in-progress ultrasound "slow looper" instrument based on Teensy (records stereo audio into several buffers at high SR and plays at decimated rates with effects and different playback logic). Let's listen to the bats and insects!
• Experiment with piezos to create ultrasound pulse patterns for instrument above (echo feedback rhythms?)
• Continue implementing stereo time-stretching on Teensy (like loFi Paul's XStretch)
• Deploy a "drop rig" recorder to catch the nocturnal mysteries of the mountains :)
• Happy to give a little talk about the technical & aesthetic qualities of "expanded" field recording practices

I bring:

• Field recording equipment (with contact mics, photodiode "light listeners", RF coils, etc
• Small electret mic capsules with ultrasound response
• Teensy micro-controllers and Audio Shields (SGTL5000 audio codec)
• ESP32 audiokit board (perfect for playing with audio on micro-controllers)
• SDR dongle and ATS-mini receiver for exploring the radio waves
• For the kids: Here's a link to a great poster: "50 tools to Learn by age 12" https://lekkersamenklooien.nl/lekkersamenklooien/hello-world/

Hopes and Dreams:

• Meet people and make sounds together!
• If anybody has WiFi HaLow gear (WiFi over LoRa radio) I'd love to try it, especially within EU-aligned regulations.
• I notice that SGMK has done workshops on local LLMs for coding. I've been amazed by Claude, but also disturbed by the ethical costs.
• I hand-etch PCBs, and always curious about how other people do it
• My ultrasound looper needs some knobs and fader caps. If there is some colorful filament I'd love to print some. (I use OpenSCAD which makes it easy to share design files.)

Simon B

Drummer, transdisciplinary Soundartist www.simonberz.ch Educator KMP creative music pedagogy www.badabum.ch Cultural devloper www.combination.space

- drums PA EFX - sounding stones - Yoga Matte viel Interesse Koche gern wieder an einem Tag MONSTER GROOVE: www.monstergroove.ch KMP: kreeative Musik Pädagogik Rhythmus Skills Angebot: TECHNIC GROOVE: eine Stunde Rhythmus Koordination Sozialisation Tanz Spass Groove

Stefan V

voglsinger.klingt.org Sound Artist from Vienna I bring:

• D.I.Y. instruments, transducers and objects
• projects to solder or build cases for them
• Field recording equipment
• Cheese and Wine

I want to:

• make sound together and play spontaneous concerts
• field recording trips and record sounds
• find resonators and build sounding environments
• solder circuits and exchange knowledge

Looking forward to:

• meeting friends, experiment, cook and eat together

Oli J

• I bring some synth / sound stuff
• also bring an overhead projector and some dyes for liquids
• plan to do some audio experiments and work on mp3 player
• looking forward to jam together

Jonas ↯

• I am
  • Eidg. Dipl. Fachspezialist für Angewandte Pyromanie im Institut für Frischen Chabis
  • Fachbeauftragter für Beschleunigte Oxidation
  • Vorsteher vom Departement für Nichts und wieder Nichts im Institut für Frischen Chabis
• I plan
  • ABSOLUTELY NO jet engine =( =(
  • Maths :/
  • Various different combustion tests
  • Fun with O2
  • Characterizing ferrit cores!
  • Bit CANVAS jamming
• I bring
  • Study materials
  • Multimeter
  • (maybe if enough transport place) oxygen concentrator 10l/min
  • Pipes, lines, tubing, hoses of various material and size
  • DIY O2/propane torch
  • Official clean propane pipework if possible
  • Pumps, blowers
  • Butane torch
  • Some metal sheets
  • Maybe a bit HV stuff
  • CANVAS Synth!!
• I need
  • Multiple liters (10l would be nice <3) brännshprit or Isopropyl alcohol 99.9%, NO GASOLINE/DIESEL!!! Generously donated by Flan & Aaron, thx!!
  • 11 kg BBQ propane gas cylinder
  • Metal drill set 1 to 8 mm
  • Handkörner
  • Stand drill machine if possible, otherwise battery drill
  • Hand metal saw
  • Our variac from mechartlab
  • Digital Oscilloscope + Signal generator from mechartlab!

Field Results

• Combustion Experiments:
  • NEVER ever use silicone hose in connection with hose clamps and/or pressurized fuel (!!)
  • Alcohol atomization by blower itself give very loud and unwanted flame flashbacks because blower had to be starved to reduce required flame velocity. No flashback protection was employed because blower possibly would eventually have flooded with non-atomized fuel behind it. Thus this concept DOES NOT WORK for a stable premixed flame.
  • Alcohol atomization by pumping it through pressure sprayer nozzle can at some nozzle settings give flame about 100 to 120 cm long, but fuel loss is substantial. Flame velocity with ethanol alcohol is almost too low for pressurized flow velocity.
  • 2 Extron 12V/3A gear pumps hydraulically in series and electrically in parallel might have chance to deliver alcohol/isoprop flow at 3 bars/45 psi worth of 300 kW thermal power. Heat on this order of magnitude is expected to be required for proper jet engine operation if a suitable turbo charger shall be used.
  • Direct propane without pressure regulator was not tried because experiments were done in confined workspace. Goal would have been to comparatively safely try outmaxing a standard 10.5 kg BBQ propane bomb to get a feeling of the built in said 6.5 kg/h flow limitation of Vitogaz (and others) gas bombs. Plan was to dispose the huge expected propane flow in a premixed flame by using the combustion blower for violent premixing. This should have reduced the flame size to a minimum in order to better control the flame at the possibly tremendously high thermal power levels.
  • Tightness of the "ghetto unlimited flow hose made by PanGas shop" has NEVER been verified and must be done so before the outmaxing experiment. injector should be the 12 mm copper pipe with the attached 3/8 threaded brass nut. Brazing tightness MUST be verified.
• High voltage experiments:
  • The "magic" hv modules from ali do not like grounding, they run very hot then and have weird behavior and deliver toothless high voltage. Also unsure if 1 of the modules was somewhat damaged in the process. Also, attempting to charge a capacitor on about 4 times less voltage level (about 4 kV) is a mismatch and might run them hot (that was not tried since trust in the module was a bit lost already).
  • (Boiling) liquid cooling with isoprop is not recommended since it seems to conduct (just) enough to start corrode the circuit board by electrolysis
  • Plain Mazzilli ZVS with flyback transformer can be run in very low power level (0.5A @ 20 vdc) if it have some 2 mF input capacitors and a digital lab supply with reliable current limitation is used. It will then periodic charge the capacitor until the spark ignites, then the load of the discharge will "burn" the capacitor empty on main power mode until the spark extinguishes due to power starving. Then it will draw much less current allowing for capacitor recharge and reignite. It is true that switching on a lab supply on a safe current setting (say, 0.5A) will hang up the circuit without damage. For low power level either the ZVS must be manual connected to active power supply or main power must be activated after ZVS resonance oscillation has established. Proper oscillation should be verified on the gate and automatically actuate the main power switch. It has not been documented if oscillation returns after hang up if only main power is deactivated without power cycling. Oscillation must be sensed over suitable foil capacitor to prove oscillation. Electrolytic capacitors have somehow falsely claimed oscillation due to leakage current. Foil cap should be >= 3300 nF, around 25 v. Instead of automatic switch, a manual switch can be employed to activate main power based on wether the user see both antiparallel oscillation verification LEDs shine. The LEDs should have 1.5 kOhms resistor and color shall be red to reduce the voltage necessary to make them glow. In dimmer daylight the LEDs light in low power (standby) mode at about 8 v DC input to the ZVS.
  • Remaining cap lines from "umrichterplatine" cap bank must be completely cut along the same lines as the first cap bank because the intermediate pcb layers make lasering impossible, and making less cuts leaves the capacitors (partly) in parallel. 6 capacitors in series seems be no problem since in the first cap bank part capacitance was always between 30 and 31 µF. In test it was no problem.
• Characterizing ferrite toroidal core for use in GDT for full bridge converters:
  • (nothing done)
• 1st of august studies:
  • 480J at 4 kV seem to be most effectively (loudly) used in 5 cm * 3 cm piece of standard Swiss aluminum foil
  • Current iteration of soap bubbler makes high quality soap bubble foam on a gas flow that correlates to at least 4 - 5 l/min oxygen + required propane for slightly rich mixture. Filling of 8cm * 50cm pipe takes around 40 s. Bubbler should have hole for input hose lower so the tightness between pipe and bubbler bottle is improved and bubble loss is minimized. Bubbles could be slightly larger. The used stainless steel pipe for oven exhaust with 0.5 mm wall have had at least 3 localized slight deformations after end of the experiments. It is likely that detonation have been achieved and the deformations mark the locations where the DDT pressure spike occurred. Pipe was not destroyed or its weld ripped, even though a one sided closure made of 0.5 mm aluminum sheet have been attempted (which ripped in 4 pieces). Should 1 m stainless steel pipe be used to stabilize detonation wave? Any object should able to be filled provided it has a marginal (~5 mm) diameter ventilation hole. It is still unclear what the torch setting should be for maximum flame velocity. Also visually still unclear what a stoich flame looks like at 4-5 l/min 90% oxygen. In other words, on sweeping through the propane control from lean to rich, how does one visually detect the point of stoich flame? Also unclear, if propane/pure 100% oxygen flame also would look bit rounded when slightly rich like the current propane/90% oxygen flame. Fire escape in 1.5th floor is good place for 500 mm pipe length to test provided "Rumpelchishte" is not open and other party entrances are not detoured to fire escape. Longer pipe could be laid in the stairs hand rail at same floor.

Markus S.

• join / contribute to further work of AI group
• programming blinkeshit 3002 (Marc: please bring fitting AT tiny programmer)
  (if requested, as talk / short workshop)
• playing around with SonicPi (I hope Felix will join)
  (if requested, as talk / short workshop)
• go hiking, possible tours if we have a car:
  • Thurwis (P) <-> Säntis
  • Krummenau (P) <-> Speer,
    Chairlift Krummenau <-> Wolzenalp possible (https://toggenburg.swiss/de/map/poi/sesselbahn-krummenau-wolzenalp-7f101480-6382-4a08-8952-2a8ecef23dbf.html)
  • Starkenbach (P), Boxlift up/down (https://selunbahn.ch/) <-> Selun or Frümsel (Frümsel only when ground 100% dry)

sva

• can be there only sat-sun-mon and then at bitwaescherei again :(
• will bring 4 LoRa-Mesh devices, which I can leave there throughout the week if some "godfather" will be found
• lets have a workshop on LoRa right ahead on Sunday/Monday, who is in?

@tamberg

• Walking there from Zürich
• LoRa geeking with others
• Web | Masto | Bsky

Aaron

This year, I'll try to limit myself to bringing only one pallet stacked with material.:)

• Lasers! 30W fiber galvo suitable for metals
• Lasers! 300x250mm diode laser suitable for plexiglas and wood
• laserable material
• 3D printers
• RC gliders
• RC electronics. Receivers, servos, sensors, broken drone to repurpose
• Rope wall plotter. Planning to hang it in the trees (maybe)
• A bunch of ropes. I love ropes.
• Microwave Kiln
• M8 Tracker to jam

Miranda

Artist etc. based in Luzern. I plan to make some funky cases for various half finished electronics projects (synths, effects pedals, analog meter, solar lamp). Also I'd like to try some Iontronics (ions as charge carriers instead of electrons), bio and organic circuits experiments. If anyone would like to join a practical research session on this it would be cool. I'll bring stuff to make a proof of concept organic semiconductor, and then biomaterials ingredients, casting silicone, various types of carbon based materials, things for various electrolytes, things for interfacing with plants, etc. It would be great to join some jams. I could bring another mixer, and a microphone.

Dani R.

• Arriving: Monday afternoon, July 27th

• What I bring:

I am working on a project for a kinetic, self-sufficient clock. It is powered by a mix of different solar cells using ATtiny (402) chips, a makefile, and programming via UPDI. It includes a real-time clock (RV-3028 RTC), a motor driver (DRV2605L) over an I2C bus, a low-current DC motor, as well as sound and LED control. The programming is done with the help of AI, and I want to share my first-time experience and trials. Regarding solar harvesting (e-peas AEM10941) to drive the clock: I am researching different solar cells (monocrystalline, polycrystalline, amorphous, and organic) simultaneously, feeding into a single Lithium-ion capacitor (250F). To what extent is this possible? Does it make sense? What is the difference between indoor and outdoor use?

• What I need:

To test different solar cells at the same time, I might need a few more (milli)ampere meters for testing.

@vali_ship

• Data & random visuals & projections

@ganda1f

🚗 Arriving on Saturday together with Charon, Vali and my son Max (14yo)

🪖 Working on Rübehelm technologies

✨ Stikka Centraal will be on site

🎨 Brushography is likely to be happening

🎥 Might even finish editing my Homemade 2025 footage 🙈

❤️ Looking forward!

Urban

Music – Electronics – Polyrhythms – Improvisation with chromatic cross strung (s)harp and double creamy bass, plugged into modular synth effects. I'm very limited in luggage, no acoustic instruments. Looking forward to jam together.

I plan:

• Found an atheistic religion
• Solder holy Neopixel drivers -> https://taube.xyz/pick/VCMediTiere
• Build a simple Envelope Follower for an Electret Microphone -> live audio feedback to synthesizer
• Build a very simple Foot-Pedal for a hair dryer
• Maybe work on a DIY MIDI-Footpedal

I need:

• Followers for my religion
• Ideas and advices for recording, mixing and mastering music

Claude2

• this year i work on my FlipFloater musik videos. no soldering!!
• i bring a new workshop: the RAM NOIZz Delay
• its a real cirquit bending gear! as a eurorack or standalone version.

Sämi is eatingVoltage

I will arrive on Tuesday evening, right in time for WEDNESDAY IS SYNTHDAY!

• CANVAS MODULAR SYSTEM - Patching kits for sound exploring workshops. Some new prototype modules.
• ELEMENTS - multiplayer synthesizer. Comes with a shitload of ws2812 lightshow.
• MINIPUNK - build your minimalistic analog synth. Soldering workshops coming up!