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The Furby Gurdy

Ran across this circuit bent Furby sequencer over at the Matrixsynth blog -

Each furby has 4 controls: mute, crash, loop and reset. The handle turns 8 cams which operate corresponding microswitches to create interesting rhythmic patterns. Part of the 'setting up' section at the beginning has been fast forwarded. Please commission me to make lots more of these machines!

The video starts off a bit slow but gets pretty interesting around the halfway mark. Interesting to see a mechanical/electronic hybrid instrument! - [via]Link

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Comments

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Posted by: Joe on February 27, 2008 at 7:38 PM

Wow! This thing is beautiful!! So so cool! Looks great!! Man I want one now!!!

Posted by: BigD145 on February 27, 2008 at 8:16 PM

That sounded horrendous. It's much worse than even a swarm of off-the-shelf Furby.

Posted by: Mike on February 28, 2008 at 12:07 AM

Is it..supposed..to sound like that, or is there some real purpose for this..oddity not shown in the video?

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