Richard Banks has written a blog post explaining a bit about ‘Technology Heirlooms’ and some of the research he and others at MSRC, are conducting into it. It’s quite a difficult subject to explain – at least for me anyway – but this is a great introduction.

It’s good stuff – very interesting and I’d say, very important.

Here it is.

Its finished! More photos in this flickr set.

Rather pleased with it. Sounds fantastic too, much better than expected.

CTS wiring kit, with short shaft 500k pots, and orange drop tone caps.

Irongear Alchemist 90 pickups. They’re humbucker sized p90′s, but they only come in chrome so I had to spray them gold, not sure how long that will last though!
They just sound amazing, especially with some decent wiring.

Explorer

Took the opportunity to change the machine heads and bridge/stop-tail on my Epiphone (Korina I think, not sure as it was second hand) Explorer too. The old stock gold ones were replaced by chrome Wilkinson locking tuners. No idea why they used the gold ones in the first place, the chrome is much better on an explorer.

Replaced the bridge with a chrome one, but couldn’t remove the original sockets from the guitar, they weren’t gonna budge.

Its a viewer for montaging your photos over real space, therefore associating personal memories with mundane ‘Non-Places’ in order to create richer everday experiences. In theory anyway.

It uses a miniature digital photo frame, I just hijacked the buttons and changed their interaction a bit.

There’s a knob on the side attached to a cam through a bearing. Every half turn the cam triggers a tact switch (below) connected to the lcd viewers ‘next’ button and changes the photo.

Next I just need to remove the LCD’s backlight so that you can see through it and out of the devices viewfinder lens.