Things have gotten unusual but exciting here in Berlin. Tomorrow there’s a crafting vs hacking workshop called Chips with Love at the new coworking location Studio 70. What’s crafting vs hacking? Well I’m glad you asked because I’m not entirely sure myself, but it appears there’s going to be a lot of playing with arduino and the like. They’ve already decided on a few projects that we’ll attempt to make during the day: a ballerina doll which reacts to/interacts with her environment;  a baby onesie which will measure and document the baby’s temperature and sound; and a remote controlled penguin softie. All of that is meant to happen tomorrow afternoon when a bunch of people show up in a room with some random electronic and craft stuff.

Sound ambitious? Well, it does to me because I have all the electronic wizardry of a blue-winged duck with rheumatoid arthritis. Hopefully some of their know-how will rub off on me and that by the end of the afternoon I’ll be soldering left, right and centre.

Who knows- by the end of the year I may be well on my way to creating an embroidered robot hell-bent on world domination. One can always dream, right?