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October 19, 2007
Graphite sequencer
Here's an interesting project by Caleb Coppock:
Graphite conducts electricity. Two wires brush against the surface of a paper disk as it spins. The wires are connected to a simple electronic tone generator. When a line of graphite is drawn across the disk, connecting two wires, a tone is heard. The quality of the line affects the sound. For example, if the line is thick, allowing more current to pass over it, the pitch changes to a lower tone.Graphite sequencer - [via] Link.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Oct 19, 2007 03:00 PM
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The VinylDisc
If this is real, it's very cool... -
The VinylDisc is a combination audio CD and special record. It consists of two attached layers. The silver layer contains digital audio information, while the black upper layer can be played on every record player.Translated version of http://www.optimal-online.de/CD.13.0.html - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 19, 2007 05:00 AM
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October 16, 2007
The Drum buddy
Liane writes -
Just wanted to give you a heads-up if you don't already know... My favorite contemporary musical invention is going back into production! Mr. Quintron will be making ten more Drum Buddies after Laurie Anderson herself placed an order for one. The Drum Buddy is a unique percussion synthesizer made with oscillators, photoresistors, a light, a motor and a perforated number 10 can. Most of the Drum Buddies to be are already spoken for, but a few will be available for sale on eBay and Fresh Kills in Williamsburg.The Drum buddy - Link.
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Oct 16, 2007 11:00 AM
Electronics, Music |
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October 15, 2007
HOW TO - Build an electric organ
Popular Science 1933 -
WITH its deep, mellow notes, the electric organ is fast gaining the musical limelight. As a rule, these instruments are large and costly. Yet, for the price of a new hat, you can build a duplicate of a small organ that was featured in a recent coast-to-coast radio broadcast.HOW TO - Build an electric organ - Link.Complete, the original instrument cost its designer, Elmore B. Lyford, a New York electrical engineer, a little more than five dollars. In spite of its low cost, its rich organ-like notes delighted the well-known radio pianists that fingered its keys and its simplicity interested the engineers that examined it. All you need to build the organ is nine 50,000-ohm variable resistances, a .003 microfarad condenser, some brass, a type '74 voltage regulator tube, a socket, and a few feet of insulated connecting wire. For power, the organ uses three forty-five-volt B-batteries.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 15, 2007 01:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Modern Mechanix, Music, Retro |
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October 13, 2007
Gort
Gort, a Theremin-like experience installation at Burning Man 2007 - Link.
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Oct 13, 2007 07:00 AM
Arts, Made On Earth, Music |
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October 12, 2007
Bikes and sound
Dave writes -
I saw your posting about bikes that make noise, and thought I'd draw your attention to the Soundcycles exhibition at InterAccess in Toronto right now. Two bike projects that make noise! The Warbike makes music from WiFi networks, details here and a radio interview about it here. The Soundbike laughs as you pedal. Both free for the pedalling until December 1.Bikes and sound - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 12, 2007 12:00 AM
Bicycles, Music |
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October 11, 2007
Mark's Boing Box
On the most recent episode of Boing Boing TV, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder shows off the Boing Box he made. A Boing Box is a simple analog sound generator used for old-school radio and TV sound effects. There will be more about how he made his in the forthcoming issue of MAKE (Volume 12).
Boing Boing TV, Episode 10/10/07 - Link
Things that go "booooiiinnnggg!" in the night (Basic online instructions) - Link
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Oct 11, 2007 07:00 PM
Crafts, DIY Projects, Music |
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October 9, 2007
Optics sequencer for 8-bit concert accompaniment
Gijs Gieskes is a Dutch hacker and circuit-bender who's built this automated kaleidoscope machine with interchangeable optics barrels. He uses it to create visuals for his GameBoy music concerts.
Camera Sequencer 1 - [via] Link
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Oct 9, 2007 08:00 PM
Electronics, Gaming, Music |
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Halloween-themed Thingamagoops
Bleep Labs has created a special line of their Thingamagoop analog synth critters for Halloween. They have (l-r) a robot, pumpkin, vampire and ghost. The devices sell for $110.
[BTW: Bleep Labs will be at Maker Faire Austin.
Bleep Labs - Link
Related:
- Bleep Labs photos - Link
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Oct 9, 2007 03:00 PM
Electronics, Music |
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October 4, 2007
Atari Punk console
Jason writes -
he Atari Punk Console is a simple electronic music circuit that you can easily put together in a weekend. The original concept was created by Forrest M. Mims III, writer of Getting Started in Electronics. At it's simplest it's just a 556 dual timer IC, a couple potentiometers, and a few capacitors and resistors. Hack together a slick enclosure, though, and you've got a beautiful little gizmo that pumps out sick square wave goodness.Atari Punk Console - weekend electronics project - Link.GetLoFi has a few good links to schematics, sample audio, and enclosure ideas. Forrest himself even checked in and commented that you can use things like photoresistors or other sensors in place of the potentiometers to have the audio output controlled by the device's environment.
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Oct 4, 2007 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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October 3, 2007
Carlos Vamos & the amazing visible AIRguitar demonstration
Carlos Vamos & the amazing visible AIRguitar demonstration - [via] Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Oct 3, 2007 01:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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September 29, 2007
SensorBib upright bass augmentation
Spencer Russell created a "sleeve" for his upright bass to house electronic sensors which detect his position relative to the instrument. The sensors use an Arduino board to communicate with a computer running PD (PureData) to translate the sensor information into sound. He used Blender and QCad to make a 3D model of his bass in order to create a pattern for his fabric sleeve. He'll be at October's Dorkbot NYC if you want to see this in person. Link.
Posted by Becky Stern |
Sep 29, 2007 10:00 AM
Arduino, Arts, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music, Open source hardware, Wearables |
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September 26, 2007
The MP3 stick (DIY/Homemade MP3 player)
Nice AVR based MP3 player... -
The MP3stick is a simple and small portable MP3 player. A microcontroller Atmel AVR ATmega128 is the heart of the circuit. MP3 decoding is done by an VLSI VS1011b decoder IC. A MMC/SD card works as memory medium for MP3 files, playlist files and skin files. The player is designed to draw his power from a LiIo/LiPo battery with 3.6V. a charger cicuit, based on MAX1811, is included. All information will be shown on a Nokia color LCD with 128x128 pixel and 256 colors. The player will work in text-only mode and if a skin file is available, also with nice graphic skins. A docking port allows outside connectivity for serial control signals, audio signals and charger voltage input.The MP3 stick (DIY/Homemade MP3 player) - Link.
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Sep 26, 2007 10:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Build your own vintage pro audio recording equipment
Cayocosta writes in -
Welcome to Cayocosta's DIY Pro Audio site. Here you can find schematics, wiring layouts, parts lists, chassis templates, photos and mp3 samples related to building your own classic recording studio equipment including the Pultec EQP-1a program equalizer, Teletronix La-2a compressor, MC76 (UREI 1176) limiter Kit, Fender Tweed Deluxe 5E3 amplifier and more. All DIY gear was built over the last three years and is currently in use in my home studio.Build your own vintage pro audio recording equipment - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 26, 2007 05:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music |
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September 25, 2007
Amazon.com MP3 downloads
This is big news, Amazon has just launched their music catalog DRM free, so if you have a music player that's not an iPod, Zune (like the MAKE Daisy MP3 player kit) or something else this might be the best way to get your music in a format it can play (and keep it that way) or if you have a music player but don't want to worry about your music not working one day this is a good option too. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end of DRM'ed content... Link.
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Sep 25, 2007 12:00 PM
Music, Online |
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Instant thumb piano - HOW TO - Make a set screw lamellaphone
RP writes -
This is a method to quickly and easily make a musical instrument capable of melodic percussion and noise experimentation. The thumb piano, known as a kalimba or mbira and by many other names, is a lamellaphone that uses plucked prongs called tongues, keys or tines to generate acoustic vibrations. The length of the tine determines the pitch.Instant thumb piano - HOW TO - Make a set screw lamellaphone - Link.Generally, the thumb piano uses some kind of mechanism to create a great deal of pressure to anchor the tines across 2 bridges which allows the free lengths of the tines room to vibrate. The tines are usually of the same material and gauge (thickness) to ensure consistency so the pressure is distributed equally holding everything in place and in tune.
The method shown here is simplified and wonderfully versatile. It allows the use of more fragile, delicate, and unusual materials for the body of the instrument, and it provides a way to use oddly shaped tines of different materials at the same time while permitting the tines to be swapped out and tuned with ease.
There are interesting possibilities here: a simple armature or jig that becomes a tool with which to investigate the sound that different materials make - how they vibrate, how they resonate and how different combinations of factors can change the sound quality.
Experiment and explore and find configurations that work for you.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 25, 2007 10:00 AM
DIY Projects, Instructables, Music |
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September 24, 2007
MIDI Arduinophone
Dingolishious writes -
Inspired by MAKE and the Stylophone my first non blinkey light Arduino project. It is a 1 octave midi keyboard. The keyboard is etched circuit board wired up to the Ardunio using the pull up resistors on the board. The stylus is ground. Touch the note with the stylus and it send midi opt code out of the Arduino serial pin. The midi port is wired right into the serial, ground and +5. Not to spec but it works.MIDI Arduinophone - Link.If you didn't want to buy a synth for the project you can use the USB to control Pure Data software synths or put a little speaker on a PWM pin and make some square wave sounds (very much like the original stylophone). Code, more details and other MIDI projects to come!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 24, 2007 05:00 PM
Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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HOW TO - Make simple but nice sounding/playing folk instruments
John writes -
I came across a link to this website in the comments of another blog. This site includes instructions for building tons of musical instruments including bagpipes, banjos, hurdy gurdys, hang drums, and many others. He also has some great videos on youtube which demonstrate some of his homemade instruments.HOW TO - Make simple but nice sounding/playing folk instruments - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 24, 2007 12:00 PM
DIY Projects, Music |
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Camera sequencer for GameBoy VJing
Wow, here's a really cool small camera sequencer, for VJing (video DJing with a GameBoy)... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 24, 2007 11:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Gaming, Music |
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Not-MIDI taplight computer music making interface
Hacked QWERTY keyboard for triggering simple "tap lights" that then kick off loops in Live on a laptop, thanks Grandpa! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 24, 2007 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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