Analog Futures: A Modular Electronics Kit for Digital Culture | Acid Solder Club

In Analog Futures: A Modular Electronics Kit for Digital Culture, Veerle Pennock (Acid Solder Club) investigates how practical knowledge of analogue electronic objects contributes to understanding digital technology, using a modular soldering kit inspired by historical educational systems and analogue computers. Users build, for example, oscillators and digital counters, and in doing so, learn about digital processes in a tangible way. The project aims to encourage a new generation of makers to use digital technology critically and creatively. Eighty prototypes are being developed and tested at institutions including HKU, ArtEZ, the Herman Brood Academie and Het Kunstlaboratorium in Utrecht, together with international partner This Museum is (Not) Obsolete in Ramsgate (UK). Acid Solder Club is working towards delivering a toolkit with a print run of 100, an online learning environment and a teaching method for educational and other maker contexts.