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June 15, 2007
Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty
Gattobus writes -
Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little Phatty... (Check out the OSC knob cursor moving on the LP)It sound like a Theremin ;-)Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty - [via] Link.
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Jun 15, 2007 08:00 AM
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Quad NAND Gate - synth, the Nandsynth
Tuomo writes -
This experiment is based on an example in Nicolas Collins' book: "Handmade Electronic Music, The Art of Hardware Hacking". The motivation for this experiment is to learn IC logic chips and to prepare inexpensive experiments for sound making electronics workshops. This is a first version, please be aware of possible errors. All corrections and contributions for improvement are highly appreciated.Quad NAND Gate - synth, the Nandsynth -Link.
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Jun 15, 2007 04:00 AM
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June 13, 2007
Juicebox retro phone picture frame hack
Paul modded a Juicebox into a Retro-phone for pictureframe / MP3 playback - Link.
More:
$20 Juicebox photo frame - Link.
Run Linux on a JuiceBox - Link.
HOW TO - Make a juice box pinhole camera - Link.
Juicebox picture frame - Link.
Juicebox Hacking - Link.
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Jun 13, 2007 02:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Turbo II, Junkyard Boogaloo - amazing boombox!
Incredible DIY boombox, watch the video!
Feast your eyes on the result of weeks of work using the various remains of over a dozen cars -- from 80's BMW's to a 1990 Toyota Tercel -- it's the glorious Turbo II Junkyard Boogaloo boombox. Ninety-two pounds of plywood and car parts joined together as an homage to the homemade car-battery boomboxes used by first-generation break dancers.Turbo II, Junkyard Boogaloo - Part 1: Features - Jalopnik - [via] Link & Turbo II, Junkyard Boogaloo - Part 2: How To - Link.
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Jun 13, 2007 07:00 AM
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June 8, 2007
HOW TO - iTunes on the Wii
Jenny writes in -
This tutorial will show you how to stream your iTunes music library to your Wii through the Opera browser. The Opera browser can be download to your Wii for free from the "Wii Shop Channel." This tutorial will work with both a Mac and a PC.hackaddict.net: Tutorial: iTunes on the Wii!!! (for free) - Link.Things you'll need:
Nintendo Wii with Opera Browser Installed (free from the shop channel)
iTunes
MyTunesRss (free)
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Jun 8, 2007 06:00 AM
DIY Projects, Gaming, Home Entertainment, Music, iPod |
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June 4, 2007
The Nautilus - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea inspired SteamPunk guitar
Jeff writes -
You had covered the last "SteamPunk" Guitar I had built back in April called the "Villanizer" [Here's] our latest build called the "Nautilus", another more extensive SteamPunk Guitar.The Nautilus - 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea inspired SteamPunk guitar - Link.The Nautilus was inspired by the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but certainly doesn't aspire to look like a submarine. Starting life as a new Dean ML model, the Nautilus was fitted with a lexan border and feathered on the outer edge to give it the iron girder look. Our popular steampunk gear assembly with thick framework and a custom brass turned toggle switch decks out the upper wing.
An apparatus of scrollwork built from lexan, wood and steel adorn the "V" area of the guitar which sports a Nautilus submarine inspired porthole window complete with the classic domed steel cross. Inside is an inlaid blue plasma lightning dish where electrical effects jolt around from the center, either continuously or sound activated. The entire section is strutted with oak for a solid build. Brass and copper piping/fittings and custom wood scrollwork complete the structure.
Related:
The Villanizer custom guitar - Link.
A Clockwork guitar - Link.
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Jun 4, 2007 07:00 AM
Arts, Music, Retro |
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June 1, 2007
Hidden stuff in your new music from iTunes
iTunes hacker Erica shows you what's hidden inside those new un-DRM'ed music files from Apple, open one of the songs via terminal and you'll see some of your account information inside the file - Link - it seems like these have always been in there (part of the ID3 tags).
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Jun 1, 2007 05:00 AM
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May 29, 2007
DIY AVR based MP3 player
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Bozai writes -
This is one of my DIY works. It uses a mp3/wma/wav/mid decode chip VS1003, ATmega8L and SD card. It supports various bitrate music file. Supports both FAT16 and FAT32. For the reason of space, resource the screen was not added. But a couple of LED were used to indicate the state.:: AVR Freaks - (free reg' required) Link.
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May 29, 2007 03:00 PM
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May 11, 2007
Reimagined DIY thumb pianos, amplified, electrified, and with faux fur
Peter writes-
Bob Collier has been reimagining thumb pianos, making his own instruments into unusual cases (camera and jewelry cases), adding fake fur, and integrating features like "self-sampling" voice recorders, amps, and speakers. With some light effects, the instruments take on entirely new characters, and he's worked up a mind-boggling number of variations on the theme.He explains a bit about what when into the design, including some inspiration from people using their thumbs on Blackberries and cell
phones...
Reimagined DIY thumb pianos, amplified, electrified, and with faux fur - Link.
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May 11, 2007 06:00 AM
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May 7, 2007
HOW TO - Make a Squawkbox - Your personal vox
Matt wrote in with his article for the instrument he to his local Dorkbot music event in Columbus last week, he writes -
This project started as an instrument for Sonic Tooth, our local Dorkbot music event. I was looking for something where you could put any sound into the mix.As an instrument, it's basically a mash-up of an answering machine and a megaphone. It ends up being a small package with a loud punch, so you could use it to play the same sample over and over (and over...). It uses a solid-state recorder with a 120 second capacity (Winbond's ISD25120)
The really cool potential that I didn't explore in this project is the ability to control the recorder via a microcontroller. It looks like the recorder's memory is addressable via a 10-bit address setting. With that, you could have the resulting playback be driven by any number of environmental stimuli. I was looking at using an Amtel ATiny13 to drive it, because I only really needed a 4-bit address space, leaving 4 ADC lines for input. But, that's all to come still.
instructables : Squawkbox - Your Personal Vox - Link.
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May 7, 2007 03:00 AM
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May 6, 2007
Worms making music
This my new favorite circuit bend/music mod, worms. Ashfordaisyak writes -
Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secrete albumen which is a sort of numbing thing (I think). Anyways, they were hastily removed and now live happily outside once again. I believe that worms will be writing the pop hits of the future.
YouTube - Worms Making Music - [via] Link.
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May 6, 2007 08:00 AM
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May 4, 2007
Make your own mechanical music box
Here's a neat kit/music box guts so you can make your own -
Make your own music box melodies with this mechanical music box set. Comes with hand-cranked music box, one pre-punched music strip that plays the "Happy Birthday" song, 3 unpunched strips (48cm), a hole punch, and instruction manual to have you creating your own music box melody in minutes. 3" long x 1" wide.
Mechanical Music Box Set - [via] Link.
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May 4, 2007 08:00 AM
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Human Powered P/A research by Rock The Bike
Paul sent in this human-powered P/A, developed by Paul Freedman (aka Fossil Fool) and Nate Byerley (aka The Juice Peddler) for the rock band Shake Your Peace, which just finished a 600-mile, 31-stop performance tour across Utah entirely by bicycle Link.
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May 4, 2007 03:00 AM
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May 2, 2007
HOW TO - Make a Low-cost spherical speaker array (from IKEA salad bowls)
Mzed writes -
Acoustic instruments radiate sound in a wonderfully complex, 360 degree fashion, while conventional loudspeakers radiate in a much more boring, spotlight of sound. You could spend a ton of money on fancy products:Hemisphere from Electrotap
Experimental Meyer Arrayor you could follow these instructions to build a cheap array out of IKEA salad bowls and surplus automotive speakers.
Special thanks and apologies to Dan Truman and the researchers at CNMAT, who's scientific work directly inspired this project.
instructables : Low-cost Spherical Speaker Array - Link.
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May 2, 2007 06:00 AM
DIY Projects, Home Entertainment, Instructables, Music |
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April 30, 2007
The Villanizer custom guitar
Thunder Eagle guitars made a fun looking guitar from copper pipes and gears -
The Villanizer started life as a Rhoads Jackson V. It's not every day you take a band saw to a guitar that plays as well as this thing does. However, I had no distinct plan other then doing a mechanical look to it. But I had more of a Sci-Fi / Blade Runner thematic in mind at that moment.After cutting, a spacer was cut and installed to join the two pieces of the body. Knowing damned well that wouldnt be a strong enough of a join for just about any player, the steampunk look hit me, and I went on to installing the copper pipe, and soldering the joints. You just cant have steam power without a gauge, so I cannibalized an old oil gauge and made a custom face in it with my name and a real complex readout.
Gears. Man I hacked more gears together then I knew what to do with, and inlaid them into a cut plexi frame that was then screwed into the body...
The Villanizer Custom Guitar - [via] Link.
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Apr 30, 2007 06:00 PM
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April 27, 2007
Pi piano solo
Each digit of pi was assigned a note and then played to 1,000 places - it's catchy! Link & more math songs here.
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Apr 27, 2007 10:00 AM
Music, Science |
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REMINDER: tranzducer - April 27th Brooklyn, NY - TONIGHT
REMINDER: tranzducer - April 27th Brooklyn, NY - TONIGHT
The aural bacchanalia that is TRANZDUCER @ LEMURplex is looking quite special this month. For TRANZDUCER.004, we've got international
representation straight outta Poland, a few surprises in store, and as always: interactive art from LEMUR! Come down to LEMURplex on April 27th to see and hear for yourself.This month's acts feature
R. Luke DuBois and friend(s): Local new media celeb + >= 1 special guest(s)
Marek Choloniewski: Krazy sensor music from Krakow
Ellis & Aguilar Duo: Bass, percussion and electronicsAll this and more at
LEMURplex
461 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn
Between 9th & 10th Sts.
Friday, April 27th
8-11 pmTRANZDUCER is LEMURplex's music, art and performance series hosted by Eric
Singer, Jamie Allen and Tristan Perich. See http://tranzducer.com and http://lemurplex.org for more details.
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Apr 27, 2007 12:00 AM
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April 26, 2007
HOW TO - Make a plastorgan
Here's how to make a fun & simple wind instrument from a soda bottle -
The plastic bottle, this common object of consumption, this vulgar domestic waste, can replace the noble bamboo to ape a wind organ. It only takes, with a pair of scissors, to carve a longitudinal "whistling" slit within the body of the bottle. Several sizes of slit are possible. The sound is not as pure (more or less muffled depending on types of slits) as it is with the sound of bamboo. On the other hand, the time taken to carve the slits in plastic is negligible compared to carving bamboo, moreover, the cost of the material is absurdly low.
Ciel Libre - [via] Link.
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Apr 26, 2007 04:00 PM
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April 24, 2007
DIY MIDI recording device
Here's a really cool AVR based MINI recorder that uses SD, and LCD and IR (remote) - [via] Link.
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Apr 24, 2007 06:00 AM
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Run an iTunes (DAAP) server in Linux with Firefly
Jason over @ Hackszine shows you how to run an iTunes (DAAP) server in Linux with Firefly -
Firefly, formerly mt-daapd, is an open source digital audio server that can stream your music library to iTunes. Linux appears to be the most supported platform, but there is also beta support for Mac OS X, Windows, and even the AppleTV!Links:One of its cooler features is that it's capable of transcoding your music files on-the-fly to a format that's playable by your iTunes client. So if you've been building up a huge OGG or FLAC library, Firefly will let iTunes know that these songs are available and it will automatically convert them into a format that can be played on the client.
- Firefly Media Server
- Firefly/mt-daapd Wiki - quick-start guides for serveral OSs here
- Running Firefly on AppleTV
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Apr 24, 2007 02:00 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Music, Online |
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