Hello everybody!
Sadly I won’t make it to Panama… the “fiiiiirst” time i miss the global GOSH event 
My name is Marc also know as “dusjagr” or “Pakdhe Marcjono” and have been very active with the Global Hackteria Network on bridging art and DIY science, connecting people from different backgrounds and cultures.
Now we are in the middle of our GOSH funded regional activities here in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and it didnt make sense to travel so far during the activities we planned here.
You can see info on ROŠA - Regional Open Science Hardware & Art, Indonesia here:
https://www.hackteria.org/wiki/ROSA
“A regional event series combining a longer on-site residency, aswell as a research & production lab, local outreach and a gathering of interesting players from the region of South East Asia.”
We are into the 2nd week of our activities and so many things have already happened, loads of sharing, making, exploring and nongkrong (hanging out together without a purpose). An amazing interdisciplinary and cross-cultural group came together and we are still exploring more projects to collaborate.
We are working on projects for DIY sound-art workshops, building hardware for local manufacturing, like a mini-lathe or drill-stand for PCB drilling, and of course exploring more advanced methods for making / etching your own hardware at home D.I.Y. Style (Dearah Istimewa Yoygakarta).
Personally i try to push the limit of homebrew manufacturing of PCBs, going double sided, adding soldermask to self-etched PCBs and exploring low-tech reflow methods for SMD components as far down as 0603 in the limited setting we have available here. Sofar progressing very good… more docu will follow in a specific thread here on the forum.
See a nice video of the late night reflowing session here.
And we got more experience with the “Draw your own PCP” workshop, about which i posted earlier this month. Many creative designs, some of them already etched and soldered.
