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Objects in Flux ware, or they may be manually added to project documentation by the author on discovery that a significant site or individual has referenced their project. xi A number of the projects developed for this research were linked to by popular Internet news sites such as Hack a Day and the Make blog. xii These links dramatically increased traffic to the specific project pages and to the site in gen- eral. On 15 May 2005 the Cylindric Ultrasonic Bat Detector post was linked to from the Make blog. Within 24 hours this page’s traffic had risen from an average of 25 visitors a day to over 2,500. xiii Within five days traffic to the site had subsided to 100 visitors a day and after a week it had stabilised at around 40 visitors per day. Although peak traffic lasted only a few days, the increase in daily traffic appears to be a lasting effect of this exposure. Participants surveyed by Torrey et al. expressed deep sat- xi. See for example, NeX’s Gameboy video out module featured on hackaday.com, http://nex. gg8.se/modblog/2010/04/gameboy-video-outout-module-in-a-video-casette/ accessed 5 January 2011; Thomas E. Henz’s split keyboard modification featured on hackaday.com, http:// henzconsulting.com/Pages/Projects/keyboard. htm accessed 5 January 2011. xii. http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2005/05/ cylindric_ultrasonic_bat.html and http:// hackaday.com/2005/02/28/covert-desk-lampmic/ accessed 3 January 2011. xiii. This experience is similar to the account given by Torrey et al. in which a participant’s site traffic went from an average of 40 visitors a day to 12,000 after appearing on Digg.com’s front page (Torrey, et al., 2007). Digg.com is an online community that collects and votes on newsworthy links. Links that receive many votes are displayed on Digg’s front page. 88 [Figure 5-13] Modified 2.5mm mono audio plug, 2005. and ended up with this. [Figure 5-14] Modifying the switch, 2005. I had to do similar mods to the slide switch and LED, cutting and filing them to fit the air vents in the base of the lighter. [Figure 5-15] Constructing the volume knob, 2005. For the volume knob, I reused the lighter’s flame control dial. With the help of some heat shrink tubing, I attached a squashed aluminium rod to the dial.
[Figure 5-16] Installing the volume knob, 2005. The rod passed through the circuit board and into the centre hole of the volume trim pot. [Figure 5-17] Fitting the components, 2005. Here you can see the battery, ink cartridge and switch assembly being fitted. Telling Stories isfaction from having their projects referenced by these popular news sites (Torrey, et al., 2007). This was also true of my own experience; there was a thrill associated with having this level of public exposure, particularly the first time this occurred. As time passed however I found that subsequent links and associated increases in visitor numbers were of less importance to me and I began to realize that it was not the number of visitors that I valued but rather their level of engagement with the various projects on my site. Both online How-Tos and build logs typically provide readers with a mechanism for interact- ing with the project author and one another. This often takes the form of a comment system that allows visitors to the site to leave text messages, hyperlinks and occasionally images. Comments are often informal and congratula- tory in nature although extended feedback, questions, personal stories and suggestions are also prevalent. Gregory Turner-Rahman notes that discussions on web-based design portals are often ‘laconic and quite vapid’ (2008, p. 384, endnote 3). A similar observation could be made of the comment posts on How-Tos and build logs, however, as noted by Torrey et al., project authors are often active in moderating this communication, ignoring or deleting comments that are judged ill-informed or offensive while engaging and extending the conversation on other fronts (2007, p. 14). It is not uncommon for reader comments to evolve into a discussion between multiple participants. Comments posted to the Cylindric Ultrasonic Bat Detector project page include a three-way exchange between an amateur bat 89
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