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About
The Homemade summercamp is a week that is open for beginners as well as experts and everyone in between interested in exploring ideas in art & technology or creating objects for sound, light or movement. The participants can bring their individual projects or work in groups and get inspired by related topics from all other participants. During this self-organized research week we will do workshops and talks, run experiments, cook & eat together, go hiking and there will also be time for party and relaxing.
Date
25. July to 1. August 2026
Venue
Berghaus Girlen, 9642 Ebnat-Kappel
coordinates: 47°15'28.5"N 9°05'27.2"E

The house is located in a beautiful mountain landscape above Ebnat-Kappel. It offers a lot of space inside and a large sun terrace. There is also a camping area. We already stayed at Berghaus Girlen during Homemade Summercamp 2023.
impressions from Homemade Girlen 2023
Fee
fee for the whole week
SGMK Members CHF 295.-
non SGMK Members CHF 345.-
daily fee 50.-
the fee includes food, accommodation and basic material.
Registration
mail to homemade@sgmk-ssam.ch
Directions
Train from Zurich HB to Ebnat-Kappel (via Rapperswil and Wattwil)
You can take a walk to the house through the beautiful surroundings(aprrox 1.5h) but we will organize a shuttle service from Ebnat-Kappel
Programm
Communal KitchenLab, Spontaneous AV Jams, Open Program including workshops, talks, performances and nature excursions.
Final Concerts and Party: Planning for Closing Event in Bitwäscherei Zürich 1. August
Workshops
A dense and inspring programme of workshops will be co-developed collectively throughout the week. Also planning in advance is allowed.
LoRa Mesh
- planned for Sunday right ahead, wanna join? Maybe add your name and what you want to install :)
- sva will bring 4 devices (1 heltec v3, 2 heltec v4, and last one need to look up: a flat kind)
- want to install reticulum on one of them
- have to leave on Monday, looking for a godfather to take care of the 4 nodes while I am away
- @tamberg and Michel from Lug Limbe might bring some LoRa mesh hardware as well
- getting started https://github.com/tamberg/lora-intro (various networks)
- working on https://github.com/tamberg/pi-tastic (Meshtastic on Pi)
How to build custom USB human interface devices
Have you ever wondered, how USB-Peripherals, such as mice, keyboards, slideshow-presenter-gadgets, joysticks and joypads work? Do you have a wacky idea for a USB-connected foot-pedal or a custom volume or multimedia controller, but didn't know how to connect your electronics to a computer?
If there is interest in the topic, I would prepare a presentation and hands-on-workshop for Wednesday or Thursday Afternoon.
In the presentation I'd introduce you to the long, boring specs of the USB-HID standard, which shall serve to give you some nifty ideas on what you could possibly build, apart from custom or minimal keyboards and game controllers. I can also demonstrate some silly things you can build, from the mythic Any-Key, to mouse jigglers and on to automation solutions and interactive menu-systems.
If there is further interest, I can expand this into a hands on workshop: I'll bring the Microcontrollers with USB-Plugs (Digispark clones), you bring the buttons, switches, potentiometers, rotary encoders or sensors and I can help you set up your system to program the MCUs with the USB-stack and get you started reading the GPIO-pins that you solder to your inputs.
Are you interested?
- <your name here> (intro only / hands on workshop)
Kids activities
Families & Kids are welcome. Please advise your age and needs. This will help us organise a kids programm.
closing party
We plan to move back to Bitwäscherei Zurich August 1st for a closing party with concerts and food.
Should we organize a bus transport to Zurich?
Participants
Question
have a question? Mail to homemade@sgmk-ssam.ch
Planning
next house 2027
announcingo on start assemble
Links
Earlier HOME MADE summercamps
Video Documentation of HomeMade2025 by Christoph Krummer --> watch here

More about earlier editions of our summercamp on Archive HOME MADE
Other summercamps accross the globe

“The Feral Labs Network is a network of temporary dislocated hubs for research in art, technology and communities. It’s members share a common interest in art-science research and contemporary do-it-yourself (DIY) & do-it-with-others (DIWO) communities.“ We are happy to be part of this extensive network across Europe!
See more about all those friends on the website and check their nice publications available on their website: https://ferallabs.net/