Last week we journeyed out to limehouse town hall in hackney to witness the latest Dorkbot event.

Dorktbot London is the UK chapter of a global collective dedicated to people ‘doing strange things with electricity’. Now, this might sound pretty niche (and it is), but we fervently believe that the hackers are the future – look at Linux.

Anyways,the most fun presentation we saw was Brock Craft who had worked out a way to translate card data into music using a standard swipe machine. he did a demo of the resulting art project: the delightful ‘brockenspiel’. Of course, this being dorkbot, someone just *happened* to have a laser card reader to hand and the attached photo shows the collective delight when that worked too. Brock’s own site has a nice little video of how it all works.