Solder, Detect, Listen: Build Your Own EMF Explorer
Maker Faire Bay Area 2026
September 25th-27th
The EMF Explorer Badge lets you listen to the hidden world of electronic frequencies! Come exploring and see how many different sounds you can find! This soldering kit is glowy, wearable, and easy to assemble! Solder together your own during one of our workshops and explore the sounds everywhere! How many different EMF sources can you discover? Perfect for curious minds who can safely handle a soldering iron (adult supervision required for younger makers).
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Darcy Neal
Darcy Neal (Drc3p0) is an electronics educator and founder of SporkLogic, where they design open-source hardware kits and facilitate soldering workshops at maker and hacker events worldwide. Their flagship product, the EMF Explorer, is an accessible tool for visualizing electromagnetic fields and is distributed worldwide. With over 15 years in interactive audio-visual hardware design, Darcy's work spans RF experimentation, new media installations, boutique synthesizer production, and hands-on electronics education. They collaborate regularly with Mitch Altman and the Hardware Hacking Assembly, and have taught large-scale soldering workshops to thousands of attendees across the global hacker community.
