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  • Image: Nadya Peek 20 Feb 2006

    Willem Velthoven en de Tesla Coil (en)

    Lecturing at the Energetica Museum Amsterdam

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  • 2019 Willem Velthoven

    Better 36,000 cyclists with AirPods than 1 deaf…

    Update: Ok, 22 cyclists on e-bikes if you're more strict about it.

    I was worried about my recent purchase of a set of wireless earbuds. The news tells me it was a bad idea to buy Apple's new gadget. Airpods are evil because they are hard to recycle and even harder...

  • Level 3: Consoles

    Interactive entertainment computers

    Atari, Commodore, Sega and more. These are the consoles on display in the Arcade exhibition. This level was opened on January 22nd 2011.
  • Persbericht 22 augustus 2007

    Eerste FabLab van Nederland

    Mediamatic maakt tijdens EL HEMA FabLab publiek toegankelijk

    Amsterdam 22 augustus 2007 — Het eerste, publiek toegankelijke, FabLab van Nederland opent zaterdag 25 augustus bij Mediamatic. Het FabLab is een openbare werkplaats waar gewone mensen met digitaal...

  • Chewing Radio's

    Dev Camp Day 2

    Chewable Radio's! What's not to understand. Tuning in to your favorite radio-shows while having the airwaves of sounds traveling from your mouth to your ear.
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 8#1 Kai Hoffmann, Frank Druschel 1 Jan 1994

    The European Computer Museum sends Tidings of...

    Jurassic Park has returned the dinosaurs to us. Some months ago there was an exhibition of these veterans of primeval time in the German town of Hildesheim, one which could not be missed. What is so...

  • Pachinko, i.a. Nishijin & Sankyo, from 1980…

    Extremely addictive

    The first Pachinko machines appeared in Japan around 1920 and were initially intended as children's toys. A decade later Pachinko became very popular among grown-ups as well. It's highly addictive...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol. 7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992

    Rheingold

    Howard Rheingold, Virtual Reality, Secker & Warburg, 1991

    The second half of the memorable year 1989 saw not only the 'velvet revolution' that swept Eastern Europe, but also the presentation of virtual reality to the world. Two developments that will occupy...

  • Converting classic strada hub to fixed gear with…

    The elegant, durable and safe way to keep your back wheel when converting a road bike to fixed

    “Who wants to take Erwin’s old bicycle out of the hall before we put with the garbage?” was the message of my neighbor Maria. It turned out to be a really nice Colnago Mexico road racer from the 1980'...

  • Keeping you on the downlow.

    Dev Camp Day 3

    After 6 posts that were not project centered it might be wise to see how our participants are doing. In this post I will briefly inform you how the day is going and if they encountered any major...

  • NBA Jam, Midway games, 1993

    NBA Jam changed the face of basketbal forever.

    Until NBA Jam was released, basketball games were really only for the true enthusiast. After all, everything you could do on screen, you could do in real life as well. However, after 1993 basketball...

  • Philips Videopac G7000, 1978

    Game: Flipper

    The Videopac G7000 was one of Atari 2600's biggest rivals. It was the only video game console to have a built-in keyboard. Its successor, the G7200, would feature a built-in black and white screen.

  • FabLab How-to's

    Making Printed Circuit Boards with the Fab Lab by Marc Boon

    What is a Fab Lab? From the MIT website: “Fab Lab is an abbreviation for Fabrication Laboratory. It is a group of off-the-shelf, industrial-grade fabrication and electronics tools, wrapped in open...

  • Construction time!

    Mediamatic RFID & Physical Computing Hackers Camp @ Picnic 07

    Projects are ready to be prototyped and build. This monday all participants are working individually or with a small number of people on parts of the projects. You might think a “hackers camp” only...
  • 1 Jan 2004

    Interactive Video at World Wide Video Festival

    Workshop in Amsterdam for European Video Artists from 10 to 14 June

    Five intense days of exploring, discussing and building interactive video projects with international video artists during the World Wide Video Festival in Amsterdam from 10 to 14 June 2004. Get...

  • Shopping Lists

    Dev Camp Day 3

    Hayo together with Machiel are in charge of getting the right equipment. They have compiled a list of the numerous hardware shops in and around Amsterdam and get the parts essential to make the...

  • Centipede, Atari, 1980

    This game was developed in collaboration with Dona Bailey, at the time one of the few women in the gaming industry.

    In this shooting game you control a laser pistol with a trackball. You have to try to kill a centipede, which gets faster and faster by eating its way through a mushroom field. If you shoot it right...

  • Playstation 3 (3D), 2006

    Game: Motorstorm Drift 3D

    The PlayStation 3 is the third home video game console produced by Sony Computer Entertainment and the successor to the PlayStation 2 as part of the PlayStation series. Thanks to a nice firmware...

  • Sega Master System, 1986

    Game: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker

    The Sega Master System (SMS) is an 8-bit video game console released by Sega. Worldwide thirteen million copies of this machine have been sold. It's based on the SG-1000 Mark III (1985). The SMS...

  • ikStaar

    Dev Camp Day 2

    Staring contests are as old as the road to Rome. I heard from reliable sources that before the invention of the ball kids used to stare at each other a lot out of boredom. This project is an updated...

  • Building Bacteria in Second Life

    after the lecture by Matt Biddulph

    Joshua Kauffman is a world citizen searching for reasons while based in Amsterdam. He writes about urban planning, media, sustainability, usability, presence and community, and does consulting for...

  • Atari Jaguar, 1993

    Game: DOOM

    The Jaguar is a 64-bit video game console, released in 1993 by Atari. Although it wasn't a big success (only 80 games were released for this little machine), it's important in that it was Atari's...
  • Mediamatic Magazine Vol.7#1 Geert Lovink 1 Jan 1992

    The Archeology of Computer Assemblage

    The 'Ars Combinatoria' of Berlin philosopher-engineer Werner K

    The Berlin philosopher and programmer Werner Künzel has hatched an ambitious plan to develop a genealogy of computer theory, written in 'the spirit of philosophy'. In the five books he has published...

  • Arduino - the documentary

    Free online doc about the Arduino platform

  • Philips CD-i, 1991

    Game: Escape from CyberCity

    The Philips Cd-i is an interactive multimedia CD player. Apart from games you could play audio CD's, picture CD's and, in combination with a video cartridge, video CD's (VCD). The CD-i featuring in...

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