Rune wirelessly rocking Maker Faire Trondheim

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Rune wirelessly rocking Maker Faire Trondheim

Maker Faire Trondheim

This post is coming to you live from Maker Faire Trondheim being held in the town square here in Trondheim, Norway, all weekend.

Rune wirelessly rocking Maker Faire Trondheim
Rune wirelessly rocking Maker Faire Trondheim

There are some makers that are hard to miss, they might bring fire breathing dragons that loom over the faire, or the could just be loud. Aalberg Audio makes loud sound good, they’re here a the faire showing their wirelessly controlled effects pedal.

Originally prototyped using an Arduino Mega for the pedal, and an Arduino Mini for the controller, the form factor of the both devices has radically shrunk since the first prototype.

Going from a prototype to a product
Going from a prototype to a product

I talked to Rune Aalberg Alstad—one of the co-founders of Aalberg Audio—about their Ekko delay pedal and Aero wireless controller, their current crowdfunding campaign, and how they went from prototype to product.

Rune talking about prototyping and producing a product

Rune demonstrating the wireless controller

The Trondheim Maker Faire is a two day faire being held in the Trondheim town square. It opened yesterday, and is open again today between 10am and 4pm. It is free to attend.

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Alasdair Allan is a scientist, author, hacker and tinkerer, who is spending a lot of his time thinking about the Internet of Things. In the past he has mesh networked the Moscone Center, caused a U.S. Senate hearing, and contributed to the detection of what was—at the time—the most distant object yet discovered.

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