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July 30, 2006
WarrantyVoid - the electronic sound toy and keyboard modification site
Great site for keyboard and toy music mods - "Circuit- bending is the art of hacking, modifying and abusing the hardware of cheap electronic sound toys or such keyboards ("tablehooters") in totally different ways than their manufacturer has intended - namely as experimental musical (or not so musical) instruments. This can result in such odd things like converting a battery operated baby toy duck into a tekkno synthesizer, though circuit- bending can be basically regarded as a cyberage's anarchic successor of phono record scratching. Much like record scratching only got possible by systematically ignoring all grannies warning: "Don't touch the precious gramophone discs with your smeary, sweaty fingers!", the same way circuit- bending lives from systematically ignoring any "warranty void" warning stickers on its explorative mission to boldly hear what no man has heard before..." - Link.
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Jul 30, 2006 08:41 AM
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July 29, 2006
The Parker Steam Synthesizer
Machineproject writes - "Lorin Parker has a made a delightful minature steam engine that doubles as a synthesizer. Or a synthesizer that doubles as steam engine, whatever. " - Link.
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Jul 29, 2006 01:13 PM
Made On Earth, Music |
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July 27, 2006
DIY paper lunch bag CD covers...
David writes - "I've been making these fun CDR covers for years - inexpensive, crafty, and you can design, print or xerox any arty label you want... glue them on - or use rubber stamps, silkscreen, linoluem cut print... whatever. The trick is to trim about an inch and a half off the open end of the bag so when it is folded over it tucks into the fold to stay closed and is more square." - Link.
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Jul 27, 2006 06:55 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Music, Paper Crafts |
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Homebuilt CrackleBox
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Fibra writes - "This is homebuilt CrackleBox. Probably the oldest analog glitch/noise synthesizer. It is based on very rare opamp IC 709. Everything is housed in the cuban cigar box. I cut out oval "Romeo & Julieta" logo from the top cover and glued hand shaped steel grid cone for speaker protection. For touchpad contacts I used 7 screws (original STEIM box has 6) forming V for ergonomicaly 2 hand playing smilar as on the original box built in 1970ties by STEIM." - Link. For more info on the original CrackleBox check crackle.org.
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Jul 27, 2006 12:32 PM
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TI-99 Computer - Circuit bent for light sensor glitch art
Peter writes - "Philip Stearns has hacked and circuit-bent a series of TI-99 home computers into glitchy art instruments, distorting the normal graphics output and triggering settings via onboard knobs and connected optical sensors pointed at the TV for live performance. He gigs live with it and sells old models as he makes new ones." - Link.
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Jul 27, 2006 05:49 AM
Music, Retro |
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July 19, 2006
Breath Control Car
Matthew Irvine Brown's "Breath Control Car" project - " This is a standard remote control toy car with a mouthpiece the player blows into to control steering. The car measures controlled change - blow gradually harder and it steers to the right; blow gradually softer and it steers to the left. At least 80% of the technique of singing or playing any wind instrument is concerned with controlled breathing. This toy replicates many traditional breathing excercises in a context of play, whilst preserving the ethos of 'practice makes perfect' - providing clear goals and requiring a degree of mastery through repeated practice. " [via] - Link.
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Jul 19, 2006 07:17 PM
Made On Earth, Music |
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Orchestral instruments on a mesh network
It looks like some folks are getting development versions of the $100 laptop, MAKE Flickr photo pool member Curiouslee is working on a music project, he writes "At the time of this photo, about 150 boards have been seeded out to developers. This one was running a version of Barry Vercoe's Csound which will conduct any number of laptops each as a different orchestral instrument via WiFi on mesh network." - Link.
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Jul 19, 2006 05:16 PM
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July 15, 2006
HOW TO - Y.A.I.A. - Yet another iPod amp
Joe made an iPod amp, here's how to make your own from an old computer speaker and a CDR case - Link.
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Jul 15, 2006 11:39 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, iPod |
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July 14, 2006
The BadaBoomBox
Here's a DIY boombox made out of car speakers, a car stereo, and a car battery. - Link.
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Jul 14, 2006 02:50 PM
Electronics, Music |
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July 13, 2006
HOW TO - Make a Radio Shack optical Theremin
Here's how to make an optical theremin-like from stuff you can get at Radio Shack. As it's exposed to light it will produce different distortion - Link.
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Jul 13, 2006 10:56 PM
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Using vactrols for circuit bends
Here's a short video on using a light sensor with an electron toy, like a speak-n-spell for circuit bending, as it's exposed to different types of light it create different distortions - Link.
Related:
- In MAKE volume 04 we have a huge guide on circuit bending. Subscribers can log in and read it now.
- Tons of circuit bending projects - Link.
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Jul 13, 2006 09:52 PM
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July 12, 2006
HOW TO - Electrify a Kazoo - the Electrizooka
Here's how to electrify a Kazoo using a piezo mic and a guitar jack - Link.
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Jul 12, 2006 11:25 AM
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Make a 3 channel Midi controller
Zevieee writes - "Make a beautiful custom 3 channel midi controller. Use it for Ableton Live DJing (recommended) or any other MIDI compliant program." - Link.
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Jul 12, 2006 03:30 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Instructables, Music |
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July 11, 2006
Homemade Mr.Spock's Vulcan harp
Tho writes - "This instrument was built this year, inspired by the one played by Mr. Spock in one of the Star Trek shows a while back. I didn't want to make just a semi-functional prop, so it was designed with chromatic shifting capability and 2 full octaves (15 strings total) with proper Helmholtz reinforcement for the frequency range." - Link.
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Jul 11, 2006 10:40 PM
Made On Earth, Music |
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Listen to the music on an Apple Newton
MAKE Flickr photo pool member MH2 writes - "Retrotronics can be such fun! This is my beloved MP 2100 in its new role as a one on one radio station. What you need to make this happen: the right kind of connectivity between your desktop and your Messagepad. Some storage space and the soft to handle it. Adriano Angelillis' NewtCast. Any bluetooth dongle / bluetooth headphones combination understanding each other properly (the dongle must dingle with the Newtcast's socket of course). Then you can do your dishes grooving to music narrowcast from the 2100. And it's up to ten meters away, safe from the water, not impairing your agility by its considerable heft. It's true. You wouldn't expect Dolby surround 5.1 by a setup like this, would you? Good. The Newton Messagepad 2100 was last sold by Apple in 1998. It's amazing enough it can handle mp3s today (at 22050 Hz mono 32 kbps). You have to balance its and the headphones' volume carefully to suppress a nagging whine which could otherwise lessen the fun. You do get some kind of faux stereo though - through the headphones' circuitry which has to deal with an incoming mono signal. Like I said before: It's all a little bit awkward and nostalgic in more than one respect. Yet we've got the power of ten thousand horses. In my kitchen alone." - Link.
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Jul 11, 2006 03:16 PM
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HOW TO - Make an IR remote for WinAmp
Trimbitas made a nice IR controller for WinAmp (just need a serial port on the WinAmp'ed PC)... [via] - Link.
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Jul 11, 2006 03:04 AM
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July 10, 2006
Modding a Beatmania controller turntable
DanAdamKOF writes - "...modifying your beatmania controller's turntable will allow it to move more easily. The increased sensitivity will especially benefit pinky scratchers who find that they aren't moving the turntable enough due to it being too stiff, but this mod is for everyone who thinks that their turntable would be improved by it being looser." - Link.
Related:
Adding A Slipmat To Your IIDX Controller - Link.
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Jul 10, 2006 03:30 PM
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July 8, 2006
DIY Pillow speaker
Hack124x768 writes - "A $2 DIY replacement of an $8 radio shack toy. Listen to music in bed without uncomfortable headphones! Free mints too!" - Link.
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Jul 8, 2006 08:01 AM
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July 7, 2006
Use graphics tablets for music
I've been using a tablet for sketching, and also use Electroplankton for the Nintendo DS to make "pen based" music, so it's neat to see that there are applications to turn the big tablet into a musical instrument too, Peter writes - "Whether you're a graphics artist wanting to make music in new ways or just trying to rationalize the purchase of a shiny new Wacom tablet, graphics tablets are worth a look for music control. They're highly sensitive, intuitive instruments, and they're fairly cheap (US$100 and up). We've talked about doing this before, but new and updated software keeps making this easier." - Link.
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Jul 7, 2006 03:43 PM
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Tune-o-sapien - Robosapien music mod
Here's a fun way to add music to a Robosapien V2 - "In an attempt to get my V2 to open up a can of whoopass on V2 Media, I decided to start with an important aspect, music. Adding the ability to play music and sound through V2 allows you to plug in an MP3 player, Ipod, Pocket PC or just about anything that has an audio output." [via] - Link.
Related:
- Hack A Robosapien- DIY: Robotics. This maker-friendly bot begs to be opened up. MAKE 04 - Page 149.
- Other Robosapien hacks and mods - Link.
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Jul 7, 2006 12:11 PM
DIY Projects, Music, Robotics |
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