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.

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

Oli J

• I bring some synth / sound stuff and a mixer
• 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
  • 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!!!
  • 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

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...