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July 17, 2007
Simple homemade tilt activated switch
imagitronics writes -
I started working on my next project tonight and realized that I needed four tilt activated switches. I wasn't exactly sure what would make a good tilt switch. The majority of online videos and tutorials for tilt switches were either undocumented, mercury based, or actually accelerometers. Luckily I found these small steel hooyahs. I have no idea what they were actually designed for, but they make pretty handy little switches.Simple homemade tilt activated switch - Link.
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Jul 17, 2007 08:00 AM
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July 16, 2007
FairUse4WM, v1.3 Fix 2
![Fairuse4Wm[14]](http://blog.makezine.com/FairUse4WM%5B14%5D.jpg)
Divine Tao (Viodentia) released FairUse4WM which gets rid of the protections on the subscription music for XP (WMP 11), Vista, files bought and sent for Zune and more... - [via] Link.
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Jul 16, 2007 09:00 AM
Computers, Music |
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July 13, 2007
Basic digital sound devices
Fun with sea moss has a lot of good starters and projects for making basic digital sound devices, bleep bloop - Link.
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Jul 13, 2007 04:00 AM
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July 12, 2007
Bryan Mumford's inventions
Bryan Mumford has a few really interesting projects, I like "The Automatic Puny Tune Player", he writes -
The Automatic Puny Tune Player is a computerized Puny Tune "robot" that plays songs on an actual wooden Puny Tune by blowing air into the mouthpiece and opening and closing the finger holes with mechanical levers. For those who don't know, the Puny Tune is a 4-holed flute that can play a chromatic octave by fingering the four holes in different combinations.Bryan Mumford - Link.The Puny Tune Player is made from wood, brass, rubber, and acrylic. The mechanical components are mounted on top of a clear plastic sheet which covers the computer and electronic components.
To operate the machine, you turn the hand crank seen at the right side of the cabinet. This drives an oak and brass crankshaft which in turn operates three pistons in the clear acrylic cylinders. These pistons pump air into an oak reservoir chamber at the back of the cabinet. Two tall rubber bellows absorb this air and inflate as the air is delivered. When the two bellows are fully inflated, they close a switch which activates the computer, a Z80 single board controller.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 12, 2007 12:00 PM
Arts, Electronics, Music |
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The BroadWave synthesizer
This fellow is building an Arp 2600ish modular using Music From Outer Space modules, wow! He writes -
So, 17 years ago I made a huge, HUGE mistake... I sold my dearly beloved ARP 2600 in order to buy an Atari STFM (remember those?)The BroadWave synthesizer. Thanks Kaden! - Link.
I always regretted doing this, and recently thought about getting another 2600. The problem is that second hand prices are ridiculously high - one went on ebay recently for over £2,500! and the Macbeth M5 at £3,000 is way beyond my reach.
What to do, what to do??... Build my own!
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Jul 12, 2007 11:00 AM
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Make a huge printable poster from your iTunes album art
Rauz writes -
This is a instructable describing how to cumbersomely export your existing iTunes album art and arrange all the covers into a huge grid, leaving you with a gigantic, colourful and vibrant mishmash of popular culture ready for printing and, maybe later, your wall!Make a huge printable poster from your iTunes album art! - Link.I decided I wanted to do this a couple of nights ago and now I've come up with a method, it's not really complicated but can be rather time-consuming depending on how large your library is.
I have around 800 albums with attached album art and it took at least an hour, granted most of that time is spent watching your computer doing all the work for you.The process requires you to download some free applications (links supplied) and you also need a new-ish version of Photoshop (I use CS3) although I'll show you an alternate way of getting basically the same results with Google's free digital photo organizer, Picasa2.
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Jul 12, 2007 08:00 AM
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July 11, 2007
The wall piano
Hon Lam Li's Wall Piano turns any wall into a piano! - Link.
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Jul 11, 2007 10:00 PM
Arts, Made On Earth, Music |
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The TeslaPhonic organ
R. writes -
The TeslaPhonic Organ is a MIDI-Controlled Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coil (MIDIDRSSTC). The electrical system is made up of several subsystems. The first is the MIDI input and control interface. This interface for version 2 is based on the Atmel ATmega16 microprocessor.The TeslaPhonic organ - Link.
The completed project drives a Tesla coil...
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Jul 11, 2007 11:00 AM
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July 10, 2007
Supaghettoblaster
Kari writes -
I have always been interested in electronics. Building mechanical things hasn't been hard either. Project started somewhere around year 2003 and I began the work by researching what kind of components and circuit are available and how to fullfill the requirements I had in my vision:Supaghettoblaster, Thanks Pekar! Link.* Must be mobile and use battery
* A LOT of power and volume
* Relatively good sound quality
* Plenty of bass ;)
* Party should last long enough and therefore the battery should do it as well!
* And of course it should look absolutely cool
* Internal signal source not required. Just input for MiniDisc, iPod, whatever
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Jul 10, 2007 04:00 PM
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Stupid Wi-Fi speaker tricks
David writes -
The AirPort Express receives the Wi-Fi music signal from iTunes, converts it to analog, and then injects it into the old boombox through a car cassette adapter. The belt raises the tweeters to brighten the sound.Stupid Wi-Fi Speaker Tricks - O'Reilly Digital Media Blog - Link.All components were items I salvaged from closets, including the boombox-with-no-line-input, the Old Belt, and the cassette adapter, which I hadn't used since I'd replaced my factory car stereos.
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Jul 10, 2007 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music, Wireless |
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July 9, 2007
The Brushbass
Brokenjoe writes -
Here`s a wacky little contraption that I put together that allows me to play a beat while playing the stand up bass using a snare brush through my fingers. Lightning Chance used to use something similar back in the fifties on the Grand Old Opry shows when they wouldn`t allow drummers there. His was screwed right to the belly of the bass and also obstructed him from going up the neck. My addition to this was to come up with a removable one that had more spring to it like a real snare and to also put in a condenser mic/pre amp that I can send to the P.A at festival gigs.It takes a while to get the hang of the brush being through the fingers but it`s worth it. At first I used it all night on duo and trio gigs playing every kind of music just to get used to it but now I`ll just pull it out for two or three songs a set for effect. It`s turned up higher on this video so you can hear its tone. Normally it would be a bit lower in level.Brokenjoe's site (Thanks Phil!) - Link.
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Jul 9, 2007 12:00 PM
Made On Earth, Music |
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July 7, 2007
HOW TO - Make an aux-in for the Bose SoundDock
Will O'Brien posted this short how-to on Hack A Day because he says the site gets quite a few hits on posts about the Bose SoundDock portable speaker system. On my site, Street Tech, the review of the SoundDock also gets lots of traffic, so there appears to be a lot of SoundDock enthusiasts out there...
There is a solderless way to hack an aux input for the Sounddock.(1) Go to Wal-mart (or elsewhere) and buy the Griffin Dock Adapter for iPod Shuffle (~$20) and a Belkin Speaker and Headphone splitter (~$4). (The Belkin splitter is needed in order to fit properly over the Shuffle plug on the device, but other cables/adapters might work.)
(2) Remove the existing adapter plate and replace it with the Dock adapter.
(3) Set the switch to speaker. (Very Important!)
(4) Plug in one end of the Belkin adapter and you are ready to go! Any input signal automatically activates the Sounddock. Now you have a fully functional female and male stereo headphone input for your Sounddock.-->Total cost ~$25 and no soldering required.
Hack A Day - Link
Street Tech Bose SoundDock review - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Jul 7, 2007 10:10 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gadgets, Home Entertainment, Music, Portable Audio and Video |
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July 5, 2007
Drive tray guitar
Jonah writes -
This "Drive Tray Guitar" was built by a workshop participant during our MIDI Scrapyard Challenge workshop held at Eyebeam in NYC last weekend. Basically it was built by integrating an old computer's CD drive into the body of an acoustic guitar and using the "Ejection" mechanism to create a "strumming" function that when moved back and forth connected up the "strings/wires" to produce sounds. Really nice use of an existing instrument mixed with some electronics detritus from the scrapyard!Drive Tray Guitar @ MSC - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jul 5, 2007 04:00 PM
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Auto-recorder project
Amin Rahimi's recorder project...
Being the huge band geek that I am, I decided that my project should involve some kind of musical instrument. Given the limited time that I had to complete the project, I decided to have my computer play a simple Yamaha recorder that was sitting in one of my drawers.Recorder - Link.Because of a limited budget, I used mostly components that I already had. The air compressor came from my car horn, which is capable of producing 138 decibels. This was clearly not the ideal compressor to use, but it was enough to get the project done without spending loads of money. As a result, the sound of the motor drowns out a lot of the recorder pitch as you can hear in the videos linked at the bottom of this page. You'll also notice that the speed of the motor changes with the pitch of the recorder to create the proper tone. This was done using pulse width modulation.
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Jul 5, 2007 12:00 PM
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Dipping duck orchestra
Kittclark writes in -
Music randomly generated by dipping ducks (AKA happy birds, drinking birds, dippy birds, happy ducks... etc). Using the basic parts of a keyboard, each duck is hooked up to a note of the octave. As their beak touches the water in the glass the circuit is completed and the sound is produced - Link.
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Jul 5, 2007 08:00 AM
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July 3, 2007
terminatorX: turntable gallery (use a mouse a turntable!)
Here's a great gallery of mouse-turned-turnables! Alex writes -
While scratching with the mouse usually sounds the way terminatorX users want it to (at least if the feedback I get is representative) it doesn't really feel like scratching. The only way to get that traditional haptic feedback is to turn your turntable into a mouse device.terminatorX: turntable gallery - Link.If you want to do this without harming your mouse nor turntable, the method suggested by the terminatorX logo should be feasible. Optical input devices are known to produce best results in such a scenario. For those interested here's a document on how I turned my old turntable into a terminatorX device.
Luckily a lot of terminatorX users have built their own turntables...
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Jul 3, 2007 10:00 AM
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June 26, 2007
Junk yard yields parts for odd organ
Here's a wonderful junkyard organ from Popular Science 1939 -
Discarded bottles, an old vacuum-cleaner motor, sections of inner tubing, and other objects salvaged from the scrap heap comprise the parts of a unique junk-yard organ recently exhibited at Atlantic City, N.J. Individual notes are sounded by air from the cleaner motor blowing across small holes in the caps of bottles tuned by partly filling them with water. Supplementary noise makers are attached to the organ's console.Modern Mechanix » Junk Yard Yields Parts for Odd Organ - Link.
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Jun 26, 2007 05:00 AM
Modern Mechanix, Music, Retro |
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June 21, 2007
Mr. EQ - DIY equalizer
Meet Mr. EQ - a nice DIY equalizer -
While use of a graphic equalizer is often recommended for fine-tuning the tone of your instrument, no feasible DIY versions exist. However, a seven-band equalizer is not necessary to drastically shape the response of an instrument of effect. Adding peaks at certain frequencies can provide a pleasing result and is much easier for the DIY builder.Mr. EQ - Link.The Dan Armstrong Purple Peaker (and Yellow Humper, the sister version tuned for bass guitar) used two peaks for bass and treble boosts. The resulting effect is interesting, but not very flexible. We chose to apply the same concept, but with a modern approach that would provide added control to the user.
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Jun 21, 2007 10:00 PM
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June 19, 2007
Vintage Wi-Fi internet radio
Alinke modded an old vintage radio to stream in music via Wi-Fi... - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Jun 19, 2007 09:00 AM
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June 18, 2007
Doublet amplifier
Octopart's hardware blog has a dual channel music player amp (in an Altoids tin, of course)...
Have you ever seen a couple sharing a single pair of ipod buds, each listening with only one ear? That was the problem I wanted to solve when I started building dual channel headphone amplifiers while I was back in grad school. After a long day of soldering krytrons and high voltage capacitors in the plasma physics lab I would come home and...solder some more.Octopart - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
Mint-Tin Amp. Pocket amplifier punches up headphones. MAKE 04 - page 141. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 04 @ the Maker store.
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Jun 18, 2007 10:00 AM
Altoids and tin cases, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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