ShortwaveCollective

ShortwaveCollective, 7 months ago to Futurology

We'll be guest lecturing at the Royal College of Art in London next week for RCA masters (of research) students. Will be lovely to share some of our collective's processes and experiments! Co-thinking/making in a collective comes with it's challenges but also so many great rewards when you operate as one multi-tendrilled unit. 🐙

#research #collective #radiowitches #AcademicFedi #academic #experimental #radioart #radio #London #University #womenintech #womeninart #soundart #womeninradio

coffeepine, 9 months ago to random

Because I see the hashtag for #WutheringBytes

That is such a brilliant name for a conference (?).

I really love it even though I have no clue what it is about in detail.

ShortwaveCollective, 1 year ago to random

We did our 1st online open wave-receiver workshop last night for the excellent folks at @oshwassociation #OpenHardwareSummit in NYC.

Georgia + Hannah talked people through things, Brigitte + Alyssa were testing & listening in their local neighbourhoods at night/amongst stinging nettles.

A new experience not being in the room w people to workshop ideas + testing but as always soooo great to see how different minds make different radios 💘💘

#ohs2023 #openhardware #ohsummit @makemagazine #oshwa

Alyssa’s open wave-receiver can be seen from above with her mounting board on some gravel and next to some stinging nettles. Alyssa’s hand is holding a wire-connection on her radio where crocodile clips are connected to her antenna which trails off to the right and into the stinging nettles.
Brigitte is standing over a black car bonnet at night time, where her open laptop and Open Wave-receiver are resting. She is participating in the workshop presentation from this position. Behind her is a large tree surrounded by bushes and a white curly antenna wire is trailing upwards to where it connects with an old and high-up vintage sign. On this occasion she is using a crack in the concrete below where the tree is growing from to be the ground of her radio circuit.
The workshop participants, lots of whom are wearing protective face masks, are sat in a room with lots of desk space to make their radios. They are all sat around a central work space filled with tools and radio components and are probably at the stage of winding their radio coils around toilet rolls which is usually the longest and fiddliest part of the process.