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October 19, 2006
Atari Punk Console schematics
GetLoFi has all the links and resources you'll need for making your own "Atari Punk Console" sound device, Circuitmaster writes - "The so called "Atari Punk Console" device is a great start for builders interested in working with components and circuitry to produce Bleepy-Bloopy-Gitchy goodness. Using a 556 dual timer IC and a handful of other components one can be built quickly. The basis for this noise maker was a schematic originally published by Forest Mims III, which now can be found around the web and posted above for easy reference. The APC can be built into any case of your desire, and in the case of The SquareWave Parade even a vintage Atari joystick." - Link.
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Oct 19, 2006 07:46 AM
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Physical Computing Intensive using MidiTron: An Intro to Electronics and Interfacing Sensors, Lights and Robotics
If it's not too late, and you're a NYC area Maker looking to beef up on your electronics/MIDI skills, you might want to check out LEMURplex and this MidiTron class...
"By popular demand, we are adding a new weekend intensive class at LEMURplex on Basic Electronics and Physical Computing. The class will run on Saturday and Sunday, October 21st and 22nd, from noon to 6 pm each day. The cost for the class is $495 including lab fee. The lab fee includes a MidiTron (see http://miditron.com) plus electronics, sensors and other parts.
Have you ever wondered how to play music by moving your hands or trigger video clips with the blink of an eye? In one weekend, you will learn how to do this through tutorials in basic electronics, MAX/MSP/Jitter programming, sensor building, lights, robotics, and interactive design using the Miditron (a sensor and robotic interface device). You will learn these techniques hands-on by building mini-projects and ideas of your own design. This is of interest to Artists, Musicians, Dancers, Actors, Engineers, Programmers, Lighting, Sound and Graphic Designers, and others.
You will have the opportunity to design sensor-based projects using MidiTron. You will learn basic electronics, MIDI, and programming in order to implement your projects. You will learn how to incorporate basic circuits into your projects and art. Subjects covered will include electronic components, symbols and schematics, electricity flow, making connections, testing, and troubleshooting. Programming using MAX/MSP/Jitter will also be taught so that you can control sound and visuals through the computer. Through guided tutorials and critiques, we will explore technical and aesthetic issues regarding their projects. In addition, prior art will be discussed for inspiration and analysis. No previous knowledge of electronics, sensors, or programming is assumed.
Instructor: Jonathan Zalben" - Link.
Related:
- MIDI Control - Music equipment language isn't just for audio anymore. MAKE 07 - Page 158. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!
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Oct 19, 2006 06:17 AM
Electronics, Events, Music |
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October 18, 2006
MIDISpeak kit - Speak-n-Spell talking toy MIDI retrofit
We covered this Speak-n-Spell kit awhile back, but there's a new video and more info on the site, looks like a great kit to bring new life to a an old favorite toy... The sound samples are rad... -
Talking Toy MIDI Retrofit
Features
- Use MIDI to trigger thousands of sounds--words, word fragments, garbled speech, percussion and bizarre sound effects.
- Works with Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, Speak & Math, and non-English versions.
- Use toy's headphone jack or speaker for audio output.
- Easy installation. Free technical support.
Related:
- Also check out the new Highly_Liquid blog... - Link.
From the pages of MAKE:
- Circuit Bending - Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you've ever heard. MAKE 04 - Page 88. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition!
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Oct 18, 2006 04:56 PM
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October 17, 2006
Forbidden Crypts of Haunted Music
I think this is the biggest collection of Halloween music on the web, each album is recorded from the vinyl record and album art scanned in - Dave writes - "Welcome to the Forbidden Crypts Of Haunted Music! I am making each album into a listening sound page! I hope you enjoy listening to them as much as I did recording them! For those of you who think the sound files have too many pops and clicks, GOOD - That's the way I meant them to sound. Just like you are listening to the albums yourself!" - Link.
Related:
- Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
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Oct 17, 2006 02:35 PM
Halloween, Holiday projects, Music |
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October 16, 2006
Homebrew pipe organ
Matthias Wandel build an incredible pipe organ, check out the story, sound samples and the build photos, he writes - "With my nonexistent music abilities, and my limited budget, I couldn't justify buying myself a little Casio synthesizer or something like that. The only way I could justify owning a musical instrument was if I actually BUILT it. I am very fortunate that my dad has a very large and wonderful woodworking shop. When I went home for christmas that year, I started experimenting with pipes. That christmas was particularly busy for me, as I also built two tables, because the house I was renting with friends was a little bit under-furnished." [via] - Link.
Related:
- Homemade instruments for kids - Link.
- Build your own instruments - Link.
- Andy's organ project - Link.
- Making Ruffatti Organ Pipes - Link.
- Making Piccolo Pipes - Link.
- How to Build a Portative Organ - Link.
- Raphi Giangiulio's Pipe Organ - Link.
- More homemade instruments @ MAKE - Link.
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Oct 16, 2006 02:50 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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October 15, 2006
Animated records
Retro Thing has the history and some links to these amazing animated records, seems like you could do this with a CD player if you modded the heck out of it (would be worth it!) or just get a record and start experimenting... - "These were cardboard children's records with the animation printed right onto the disc itself... The Red Raven included a little mirrored device that you pop onto the turntable's spindle that reflected the animation in such a way that while the record plays you get to see a little cartoon." - Link.
Related:
- Red Raven records (video) - Link.
- FILM-KARUSELL - Link.
- Red Raven movie records - Link.
- Children's Music - Link.
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Oct 15, 2006 12:13 AM
Music, Retro |
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How trumpets are made
Pat sent in this week's "Cool stuff being made" - Trumpets! He writes - "When you hear the greats like Louis Armstrong, Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis and Al Hirt, not everyone thinks first about manufacturing, but they should. After all, these folks are all playing on a manufactured product, the trumpet. This video shows a Bach trumpet (first designed by Vincent Bach in 1918) in all stages of manufacture. From the premium grade brass or pure silver through the valves -- honed to a tolerance of .0005" -- this is manufacturing craftsmanship at its finest. We've also provided a link to the history of trumpets, for your musical junkies out there." - Link (Bach trumpets video) & History of trumpets video.
The videos are a little salesy, but there is a lot of good info in them if you're interested in trumpets.
Related:
- How it's made.. @ MAKE - Link.
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Oct 15, 2006 12:01 AM
How it's made, Music |
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October 12, 2006
Vacuum cleaner music
We Make Money Not Art has a great collection of Vacuum cleaner based music...
Celeste Boursier-Mougenot's Harmonichaos is a sound installation made of 13 vacuum cleaners fitted with a harmonica in their mouth and a switch that turns them on/off. Each is connected to a sound frequency analyzer (a modified electronic guitar tuner).
Two more installation with vacuum claeners: Staalplaat's Composition for 60 vacuum cleaners (and 2 cement mixers, 2002) and Wolf Vostell's Fluxus-symphony for 40 vacuum cleaners that dates back to 1976!...
More vacuum cleaner music - Link.
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Oct 12, 2006 09:35 AM
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HOW TO - Make flashing "BONEfones"
MAKE Instructable member Gschoppe shows you how to convert a totally underwhelming foam skull into a Halloween speaker system... He writes - "I was at Abott's party store in Littleton, NH a couple days ago and saw a foam skull. Upon first glance it looked like your basic Halloween prop, until I saw the LEDs in its eyes. I immediately knew this would be the prop of a lifetime... with the sort of technology it was hiding in its cranium, the skull might be able to:
a) Scare the daylights outa the neighborhood kids
b) Dispense fortunes when it detected questions directed at it
c) Do the dishes, walk the dog and fetch me a beer
d) All of the above
With visions of sugarplums dancing in my head, I reached down with hands trembling in anticipation and flicked the "ON" switch.
Its eyes lit up.
they didn't even blink.
I was utterly devestated.
It was then and there that I decided to remedy this great injustice. I purchased the skull and began brainstorming.
Ten Redbulls later I hit upon an idea...
What if the skull could talk...
what if his eyes lit up while he talked...
Brilliant!" - Link.
Related:
Blinking leds - Link.
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Makers and Crafters, it's time to enter our ghoulishly fun Halloween contests! Anyone, anywhere can enter, and depending on what type of maker or crafter you are, you can enter all or just some of the contests - Link.
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Oct 12, 2006 08:16 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Halloween, Holiday projects, Home Entertainment, Instructables, Music |
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October 6, 2006
Ruben's Tube - Sound visualization... with FIRE!
Here's a really neat way to see sound waves... With fire! I think if I ever make a fireplace, it'll have something like this. Twinrawk writes - "The classic physics experiment involving sound, a tube of propane and fire. Created for Flash Forward 2006, but useful in any case where you are not allowed to have fire. I push through the tube 449 Hz then higher frequencies, then some jazz and then some rock. This is real life sound visualization." [via] - Link.
Related:
Other things, with fire, on MAKE - Link.
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Oct 6, 2006 08:06 AM
Music, Science |
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October 5, 2006
Father of circuit bending Reed Ghazala's Flickr finds (photos)
MAKE pal Peter Kirn writes - "Over the past week Reed Ghazala, the innovator who's known as the father of circuit bending, sent me two sets of resources from his new flickr account. First, you'll find lots of fantastic and imaginative art and designs, circuit-bent and otherwise, in his whole collection. Second, he has a DIY circuit design for replacing a now-discontinued resistance substitution box, a key component in making warped, circuit-bent creations. If you click through to comments, several of my readers have some ideas for some alternatives to his idea, as well. And, of course, Reed waxes poetic about the passing of a beloved electronics part!" [via] - Link.
The photo here is a musical carafe (really) that Reed built for Tom Waits!
Related:
- Circuit Bending Tips: Resistance Substitution Wheel is Dead; How to Make Your Own - Link.
- In MAKE volume 04 we have a huge guide on circuit bending. Subscribers can log in and read it now.
- Circuit bending, on MAKE - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 09:23 PM
Electronics, Music |
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DIY Electronic drums
Geekboxjockey shows how to make an electron drum set on the cheap... - "This is kind of a general overview, the basic concepts are fairly simple. I looked at a lot of info out there before building my own, and I just kind of planned it as I built, it just takes a little creativity. Sorry to not include any links, just google it, I couldn't find the specific pages I used, but there is a community of people out there who do this stuff.
So an electronic drum set can run you back $600-3000+, sometimes without a module, my main reason for doing this was to save money bigtime. For comparison the cost for me was around $150-200 for all parts, then the module, so a total of at most $370, which as you drummers know is even cheaper than entry level acoustic sets! The most expensive item was the electric drum module or heart of it all which I will get to later." - Link.
Related:
DIY Electronic drums - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 04:45 PM
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DIY Audio splitter
Here's how to build a simple audio splitter so two people can listen to your MP3 player at the same time. It all fits inside a small bottle as its enclosure too... - Link.
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Oct 5, 2006 07:20 AM
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September 29, 2006
Aluminum tube makes awesome flutes
Eric made a couple of flutes with wood and aluminum tube. He says they're easy to play and sound great. On his site he included tips on achieving the correct tuning too... - Link.
Related:
- FolkUrban Music - DIY instruments - Link.
- Make your own musical instruments - Link.
- Weird Instruments - Link.
- Collection of Homemade Instruments - Link.
- Musical Instruments: PVC Recorder - Link.
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Sep 29, 2006 04:27 PM
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Record playing bicycle and record playing car engine
Artist Alexander Laner has a couple neat transportation-playing-art pieces, this motor was slowed down to play a record (33 rpm) mounted to the engine block, and this bicycle plays a record too! [via] - Link.
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Sep 29, 2006 06:25 AM
Arts, Bicycles, Made On Earth, Music |
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September 28, 2006
How Saxophones are made
David writes in with the latest "Cool stuff being made", he writes - "In this fifteen minute video it becomes obvious that saxophones are a work of art that combines experience, concentration, patience and manual dexterity. Some 500 parts go into the saxophone with 3000 separate operations. You'll see how the parts get cut out and stamped from a brass sheet, how the bell takes shape, how a drill press creates the tone holes and how their placement results in a proper aerodynamic flow of air for more dynamic sound. Then, watch how the keys are made from the stamping of a huge hydraulic press. Later, learn how learn the important role of screws and how they get placed followed by much quality checking. Our tour concludes with each sax getting hand tested." - Link.
Related:
How it's made archives - Link.
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Sep 28, 2006 11:10 PM
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MIDI Monster attack!
David writes - "The new issue of Make magazine features a tutorial I wrote on embedding a MIDI data detector in a tiny Japanese monster toy. I took a bunch of photos for the article, along with two videos. You can see one video on the Make site, so I thought I'd share the other here." - Link.
Related:
- Monster MIDI Detector - Here's an easy-to-build MIDI detector packaged in a small Japanese action figure. MAKE 07 -Page 147.
- Tons of MIDI projects, how-tos articles and more - Link.
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Sep 28, 2006 07:11 AM
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FolkUrban Music - DIY instruments
Tim writes - "Simple AND playable DIY musical instruments in PVC, plastic and anything else that's cheap. This is my site, which I haven't done much with for several years. The recent DIY instruments made me remember all about it! Some of the projects were intended for young folks with budding mechanical skills, but all of them can be played as real musical instruments. " - Link.
I like the the Toilet Ocarina and the $12 Ukulele! (aka The Plastic jumping flea).
Related:
- Weird DIY Instruments - Les Luthiers - Link.
- More DIY Musical Instruments: PVC Recorder - Link.
- Make your own musical instruments - Link.
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Sep 28, 2006 06:15 AM
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September 27, 2006
Miniatures synths
Dan has been busy building miniature synthesizers from cardboard, check'em out! He's also selling them it seems... - Link.
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Sep 27, 2006 10:44 PM
Music, Paper Crafts |
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Royer's "One Man Band"
Eric writes - "I invented and built the first Guitar Machine in Tucson in 1994 and since then have built three more versions, each time making it more playable and more portable (for playing on the street, in subways, etc...). The machine, often compared to a Rube Goldberg sculpture, consists of an acoustic guitar, a bass guitar and a cowbell all suspended in a copper pipe frame. I play all three instruments by depressing pedals with both of my feet. There are no computers or anything like that involved, it's all mechanical. The pedals pull strings that cause several different movements on the machine, strings get plucked, capo things go up and down, a golf ball hits the cowbell, the "Pretty Polly" doll dances, etc..." Thanks Courtney! - Link.
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Sep 27, 2006 12:10 PM
Made On Earth, Music |
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