ZingTing: An Arduino Electronics Workshop.
Zing ting was a one day instructor-led hands-on workshop for designers,artists and anyone else who wanted to learn how to create physical interaction devices using the arduino microcontroller in the framework of Fritzing.
———- London Design Festival 2010
ZINGTING
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A one-day, instructor-led workshop for turning ideas into physical interactions with Arduino and Fritzing.
Where Peckham Library
Format Hands-on workshop
Format Hands-on workshop
01
The
brief.
How could designers and artists move beyond the screen and begin creating objects that sense, respond and interact?
Working in conjunction with German interactive design expert Stefan Hermann, Sipo Siwo organised Zing Ting as a one-day, instructor-led workshop for designers, artists and anyone curious about physical computing. Held at Peckham Library, it offered a practical introduction to creating physical interaction devices with the Arduino microcontroller.
The workshop was deliberately accessible. No specialist electronics background was required: participants learned by handling components, connecting circuits and seeing their code produce an immediate physical response.
Electronics became something to sketch, connect, test and understand.
02
From idea
to object.
The workshop used Arduino within the framework of Fritzing, connecting code, circuit design and rapid prototyping in one continuous process.
Fritzing is an open-source initiative that supports designers, artists, researchers and hobbyists working creatively with interactive electronics. Its visual approach streamlines the journey from an initial design to a working prototype and, ultimately, a production-ready circuit.
Participants moved between drawing, assembling, programming and testing. Breadboards, LEDs, wires, resistors and capacitors made the logic tangible. When an LED blinked or a component responded, an abstract line of code became a physical event.
03
From idea
to object.
Zing Ting formed part of the London Design Festival 2010, a city-wide celebration created to promote London as the design capital of the world.
Within that wider programme, the workshop presented interaction design as an open, participatory practice. Technology was not treated as a sealed product to be consumed, but as a creative material that could be understood, altered and shared.
The result was less about producing one polished device and more about giving participants a repeatable way to develop their own: begin with an idea, visualise the circuit, build a prototype, test it and improve it.
Held at Peckham Library London Design Festival 2010
Held at the RIBA Stirling Prize winner for Architecture in 2000 Peckham Library.