This Tuesday I went down to the Tech Shop, only a short bike ride away from my girlfriend's house, to check out the Make:SF monthly meeting. I went to one about 6 months back and had fun putting together a musical pen called the 'drawdio'. This time around we were learning how to make an arduino controlled mini-theremin, though in truth the chip we used had been pre-programmed and there was no real use for the arduino unit I borrowed from my co-worker earlier that day. It's probably for the best, since in the last six months I had apparently forgotten how to solder (again), never mind trying to write a program. I struggled my way through the steps of what I initially thought was going to be an easy project and at the end, thanks to some good advice from the project coordinators, I got the thing to work.
