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January 18, 2006
DDR-style game pad for $10...
Here's a Dance-Dance-Revolution style USB mat you can get from Kraft (the macaroni and cheese folks) for only $10. This is a pretty good deal and you could likely turn this into all sorts of controllers and as parts for projects. I bet it will even work with the open source version of DDR. So, grab one while you can and they're available. [via via] Link.
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Jan 18, 2006 06:42 PM
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DIY PVC multiple guitar stand
Poulw has a good guitar stand how-to on Instructables - "A simple and cheap stand for one or more guitars. Takes maybe two hours to build. The Mod is based on imarunner2's pvc bike rack. This is a 4 guitar version. I bought two 10 foot 3/4 inch pvc pipes and had them cut in half at the store. 11 3/4 "T" connectors 6 elbows 5 caps 2 sections of self adhesive insulating pipe foam. Total cost was less than 30 dollars. Similiarly manufactered items go for $50 to $100 in music shops." Link.
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Jan 18, 2006 02:35 PM
DIY Projects, Instructables, Music |
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Building an AudioNote PQ Signature Kit
Mostlyaudio's article about building the AudioNote Kit1 PQ Signature Edition SET amplifier. "This kit will build a very high quality Single-Ended, Class A, directly heated triode amplifier. The amplifier will support a single line source (unless a pre-amp is used that will support more sources) as it incorporates a volume control. It has a class A output of 8watts per channel. Don't be put off by this seemingly low wattage as it is every bit as loud, position for position, as my my old 40W Linn solid state amplifier was through the same speakers. It also has an input impedance of around 100K which is more than ample for a huge range of source components." Link.
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Jan 18, 2006 01:30 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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ArtistServer...
GarageSpin writes "ArtistServer was created by one guy, Gideon Marken. The ultimate DIY musician, he went out and built his own music hosting platform thousands of artists now use. All the music promotion tools are free (blog, podcast, ringtones, mobile sites, downloads, streams, etc), and it was even voted one of the top 5 music hosts by Time! Basically, a DIY musician empowering other musicians with DIY tools..!!" Link.
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Jan 18, 2006 08:00 AM
Arts, DIY Projects, Music, Ringtones |
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January 17, 2006
HOW TO - Using a Stereo as Computer Speakers
Aaron writes "Most of us cannot afford fancy 7.1 surround sound systems or feel that we do not utilize the computer's audio functions enough to reap the benefit of one. However, most of us have stereos. That and a few cables is all you need to enjoy a nice audio system without damaging your bank account. In this article, I will show you an easy way to use your stereo as computer speakers for a nice sound system at a very low cost." Thanks Star! Link.
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Jan 17, 2006 02:29 AM
Computers, DIY Projects, Home Entertainment, Music |
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January 16, 2006
HOW TO - Replacing Capacitors in Old Radios
Excellent guide on replacing capacitors in old radios "Second only to power cords, capacitors are the most failure-prone components in old radios. In a professional overhaul, it is common to replace all of a radio's large electrolytic capacitors and small paper capacitors. This article explains how to do just that. In many cases, this "recapping" is all that the radio needs to be restored to health." Link.
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Jan 16, 2006 04:44 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Retro |
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Dot Matrix Printers as musical instruments...
Paul from Dotmatrixsynth makes musical instruments out of printers, here writes - "I've got an ongoing project, reprogramming the firmware in these 1985 Epson LQ-500 printers to turn them into musical instruments. I originally just wanted to make a sort of homemade mellotron, but it's evolved into a much deeper project. These printers (like all printers) have a computer inside that operates all the motors and handles the parallel port, etc. The software that drives that computer is all on an EPROM (a reprogrammable ROM chip.) I remove the EPROM, erase it, and reprogram it with my own software that I've developed by reverse engineering the printer and its computer." Link.
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Jan 16, 2006 02:42 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Retro |
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HOW TO - Simple Microphone Preamplifier
Tomi writes - "This is a simple microphone preamplifier circuit which you can use between your microphone and stereo amplifier. This circuit amplifier microphone suitable for use with normal home stereo amplifier line/CD/aux/tape inputs. This microphone preamplifier can take both dynamic and electret microphone inputs (preamplifier provides power foe electret microphone elements). The idea of this circuit is to keep the design as simple as possible to be easy to build. That was my goal when I needed a simple external microphone preamplifier for my mixer. The performance of the circuit is nothing superior but can be used with many not so serious projects." Link.
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Jan 16, 2006 01:41 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Podcasting, Portable Audio and Video |
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January 15, 2006
DIY Microphone Projects
Nice use of a mint tin! - "This site features projects and circuits for building stereo microphones from low-cost Panasonic electret microphone capsules. Included are Mid-Side, XY, and Blumlein microphone setups. In addition, there are interesting related circuits and links to sites with microphone information and parts sources." Link.
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Jan 15, 2006 09:00 AM
Altoids and tin cases, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Podcasting |
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January 14, 2006
Wireless Guitar hero PS2 controller mod...
TheDude06 writes "I finally completed my wireless guitar hero controller mod! With so much space available in the guitar, i knew it was possible. id just never got around to finally doing it. Long story short, i had to completely dismantle the guts of the guitar to do this. its not possible to do this mod without soldering or removing parts from the guitar hero board.... at least, not the way i dd it. Since i wasnt able to find a box that could turn any controller into a wireless controller locally, i figured id take a stab with these..." Link. The project is in our new MAKE forums. If you haven't checked, hit 'em and join--they're on fire! (In a good way.)
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Jan 14, 2006 03:21 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Wireless |
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January 12, 2006
MIDISpeak: Speak & Spell MIDI Kit
Not a bad deal for $49. "MIDISpeak Module - Version 2, The Talking Toy MIDI RetrofitAdds a standard MIDI IN port to your Speak & Spell, Speak & Read, or Speak & Math. Non-English versions also supported. Trigger thousands of sounds--words, word fragments, garbled speech, percussion and bizarre sound effects." Link. In MAKE 04 we also show you how to build music toys like this. Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you've ever heard.
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Jan 12, 2006 02:07 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Kits, Music, Toolbox |
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January 11, 2006
The Jukebox Challenge!
Garth from Extreme Craft writes "The Jukebox Challenge! I'm really excited to see if some people will throw down on this, because I think it's an amazing idea, but I don't quite have the tech chops for it yet. There are zillions of great old vinyl jukeboxes out there, but they're incredibly finnicky to maintain. The challenge would be to create an MP3 interface for a real jukebox that would be as minimally invasive as possible..."
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Jan 11, 2006 12:33 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Retro |
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January 10, 2006
HOW TO - The Radio Babylon
"A small wireless battery powered device - Turn it on near a friendly wireless network that contains iTunes shares and plug your headphones in. It picks a random iTunes share, picks a random tune and starts playing. Repeat until bored or the batteries are dead. The size of the system is amazing. The main board is about the size of my little finger. By default it's running an ssh server, a web server and advertising itself to the network with bonjour." Link.
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Jan 10, 2006 04:27 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Wireless, iPod |
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January 9, 2006
Gramophone Recorder
Michael writes: "I've been wanting to do this for a while. I remember reading about an expensive commercial product for it, and there's a much cheaper product available that is similar, but it records only things of a smaller size and the description seems to imply the recordings can only be played back on these machines, not regular turntables. (It's a kit, which is nice, but the Gieskes.nl recorder looks much cooler.) I'm interested in trying Gieskes.nl's project, but I'm wondering if there are other people out there who have done this so I can supplement these instructions a bit. Do you know of anyone else who has information about doing this sort of thing?" Link.
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Jan 9, 2006 02:38 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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January 8, 2006
Robot Drummer Responds to Human Playing...
Peter writes "Here's a Haile, a robotic drummer that responds intelligently to your playing with an expressive performance on a Native American Pow-wow drum. They're set to create a Jewish-Arab drum circle composition featuring the robot commissioned for performance in Jerusalem." Here's how they did it. Link.
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Jan 8, 2006 01:05 PM
Music, Robotics |
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Update your phone? No MP3s for you!
This is a trend I think we'll see over and over again this year with phones and the music stores carriers are going to roll out - the slow death of MP3 playback on phones, or having to have a Windows PC and Media player 10 to convert to WMA before your phone can play your music. Techdirt has a story about Verizon phones that will no longer play MP3s one upgraded to use their new music store, if customers complain they'll get an old refurbished phone with older firmware, but it doesn't appear that the user is warned before updating that they'll lose their MP3 playing feature. [via] Link. (and more details here).
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Jan 8, 2006 07:00 AM
Cellphones, Music |
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Simulating Phase Shifter Pedals in Software...
Peter writes "In response to the earlier post, I've heard back from people who are using circuit simulation software to create highly accurate models of physical circuitry in software. The folks at Audio Damage use the free SPICE model and software to produce audio/music plug-ins like an upcoming bi-phase effects pedal model. That's not the only geeky tool out there that's useful for music: an add-on for MatLab lets you visualize MIDI music files." Link.
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Jan 8, 2006 06:58 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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January 7, 2006
The portable SID player...
Wow, nice project and the MP3s on the site are fantastic! - "SIDman is a portable SID music playing device. If you don't know what SID music is, then get thee to here now. The SIDman was an experiment to see if a PIC microcontroller could emulate another processor in real time, and still carry out other functions. It seems to have been a success :-). There are still a couple rough edges here and there, but it seems to handle most tunes fine." Thanks Johan! Link.
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Jan 7, 2006 04:23 AM
Music, Retro |
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January 6, 2006
ScanJet Music - Play music with your scanner
This scanner can actually play music, nice hack - "That's right. The HP ScanJet 4c's SCL (Scanner Control Language) command set includes an unofficial PLAY TUNE command. I stumbled across this after reading an article on the ScanJet 4c in the feb. 1997 issue of HP Journal (see the sidebar Sing to Me). The PLAY TUNE command basically varies the stepping rate of the scanner motor to produce audible frequencies. All it needs is a series of note frequencies and durations previously written to its SCSI buffer. " [via] Link.
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Jan 6, 2006 02:51 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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January 5, 2006
1-Second Music for the Leap Second...
Peter writes with the results from the call for one second music in celebration of the extra second we get in 2006 - "Composers, piano tuners, producers, sound designers, and stand-up comics (and many Make readers) have responded to CDM's call for one-second music to honor the leap second added to atomic clocks this year. The results are astounding miniature compositions, which I've assembled into a full song for download. Happy New Year!" Link.
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Jan 5, 2006 03:08 PM
Announcements, Music |
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