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September 20, 2007
Lev and Thumpbot play crazy
Nice use of kinetic instruments to produce something that could theoretically be considered melodic.
MoonMilk Labs Link
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Sep 20, 2007 12:01 PM
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September 18, 2007
Swooftronic 2000
Sorta hacky but pretty cool -
The swooftronic 2000 is the original device in the swoof series. It is a very basic digital synthesizer that allows you to vary the upper pitch, lower pitch, note length, sweep rate, rest length and sweep length. Once you have set the desired value you press the play and the swoof loops through the sound over and over again.RareBeasts - Link.The Swoof is controlled via the four button hand piece. The buttons allow you to move up and down through the menu system, enter and change new data and start play mode. There is also a load and save which allows you the keep and recall 10 sets of data, the data is stored even when the unit is not on and the battery is removed.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 18, 2007 01:00 AM
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September 17, 2007
New iPods now work with Linux
At first it looked like it wasn't going to be possible to use the newer iPods with Linux, but 36 hours after the story made the rounds online there's now some code to get things working... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 17, 2007 07:00 PM
Computers, Music, iPod |
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September 13, 2007
Atari tube
Gorgeous Atari "pub console" in a tube! Link.
More:
Atari Punk Console schematics - Link.
Atari punk console inside a old Ericsson telephone - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 13, 2007 03:00 PM
Electronics, Music |
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Fruit controlled music thing
Raphael wanted us to know that it's official. France is our ally, and we can learn from them. Because -- circuit bent twinkly noisy *fruit controlled* thing.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 13, 2007 11:00 AM
Electronics, Music |
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September 12, 2007
eDrum - DIY electronic drum controller
Wow, made an awesome "eDrum" - A DIY electronic drum controller. Source and schematics included! - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 12, 2007 11:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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Make an office amp
Fred writes -
Here's a very quick 30-40W/channel stereo amp that nearly anyone can make. It uses LM3886 chips, and is based loosely on the GainClone amps people seem to like making, using point-to-point wiring and off-the-shelf stuff. The amp sounds great, and is small enough to stick on the shelf at my office!Decent Amp for my Office - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 12, 2007 04:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music |
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September 11, 2007
RC4560-based headphone amplifier
This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they're functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is the Chu Moy design found here. The CMoy circuit is not SMD.
Op-amp headphone amplifier - Link
Related:
- In-line headphone amp - Link
- MAX - headphone amp - Link
- Altoids headphone amp - Link.
- AVR based headphone amp - Link
- Altoids and tin cases Archives - Link
From the pages of MAKE:
Mint-Tin Amp. MAKE 04 page 131. Pocket amplifier punches up headphones. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or get MAKE 04 @ the Maker store.
Posted by Gareth Branwyn |
Sep 11, 2007 08:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Instructables, Music, Portable Audio and Video, iPod |
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360 Degree speakers
These are pretty neat, 360 degree speaker concepts over @ Yanko Design - [via] Link.
In the latest volume of MAKE (11) we show you how to make a "ball of sound" ... a low-cost spherical speaker array. MAKE 11 - Page 141. Subscribers--read this article now in your digital edition or subscribe to MAKE!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 11, 2007 07:00 PM
Arts, DIY Projects, Music |
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September 10, 2007
DIY 3-way Hi-Vi tower loudspeaker project
Adam has constructed a pair of 3-Way Tower Speakers using all Hi-Vi drivers. The speaker enclosure is divided into a bass reflex portion that contains a single Hi-Vi F8 Woofer and a sealed portion that contains a the pair of Hi-Vi F5 mid-woofers and a Hi-Vi SD1.1-A tweeter. The sound is divided using a 3-way 2nd order crossover network.
The speaker enclosure is using MDF and finished with black oil based epoxy paint and red oak trim, thanks Gio! Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 10, 2007 09:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music |
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September 6, 2007
Personal beer speakers
Here's another one for the homemade speakers using cardboard box collection... Link.
Related:
Portable cardboard speakers - Link.
Fold-Up Speakers - Link.
HOW TO - make folding speakers - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 6, 2007 12:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music |
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September 4, 2007
Cardboard stereo amp and speaker
Sarah writes -
...A quick post about an old amp I made 10 odd years ago when I got my first PC (being a Mac fan before that). It's a 5.25″ stereo amp with volume control to use one of the slots at the front of the PC tower.Cardboard stereo amp and speaker - [via] Link.I'm still using it as my main means of listening to pandora.com while I'm tinkering. Its most reliable feature is the regular hiss that requires a slap to get rid of it. One day I'll get around to resolder the contacts inside to make it sound a little nicer, but then it'll lose a little of its charm.
Strictly speaking, the case is cardboard not the amp, but let's don't argue about minor details. There's a single speaker, so it's not entirely necessary to have a stereo amp, but that way it's future proof, right ?
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 4, 2007 11:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music |
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Gramophone MP3 player
Herr_Dokter writes -
I found the continued transportation and assembly of portable speaker systems a source of frustration, and so I aimed to create a portable sound system capable of housing my Mp3 player, and also connecting to my portable thinking engine in order to play sounds at our RPG the Clockwork Opera.Gramophone MP3 player - [via] Link.
Related:
Gramophone recorder - Link.
Berliner Gramaphone Kit and Edison Cylinder Kit - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Sep 4, 2007 01:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music, Retro |
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August 30, 2007
The Breadboard Band
The Breadboard band do not play instruments, they play breadboards (check out the images and videos)... Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 30, 2007 01:00 PM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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August 29, 2007
Youscope (oscilloscope demo)
Miikka writes -
It's bit late and off-topic, but anyway, if you haven't seen it yet... here is a cool use for your oscilloscope: use it as a display for a demo. This demo won the third place in Assembly Summer '07 shortfilm competition. I really like those sine waves. By the way, the guy who made this is 15 years old. The oscilloscope is connected to PC soundcard and is in X/Y-mode, with right channel connected to X and left to Y input. Download its waveform from here to see it on your oscilloscope!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 29, 2007 11:00 AM
Arts, Electronics, Music |
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Volta - Audio signal controlling a cathode ray oscilloscope
rf00101 writes -
This is an excerpt from my video installation VOLTA (2006). It is made using audio signal to control a cathode ray oscilloscope (exactly the same as the techniques behind the 'backscatter' DVD but a little more advanced.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 29, 2007 01:00 AM
Arts, Electronics, Music |
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August 28, 2007
Homemade record player
Here's how to make a homemade record player with paper!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 28, 2007 10:00 AM
DIY Projects, Music, Paper Crafts |
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HOW TO - Make a portable "point of sale" listening kiosk
Brian writes in -
Most musicians who have tried to make money performing and selling CDs know how hard it can be to get people to take a chance and purchase music from smaller, independent artists. My band, The Highway Beautiful, saw a need to have potential customers listen to our CD before they purchased it, or before they would attend our performance at a music festival.HOW TO - Make a portable "point of sale" listening kiosk - Link.While most of the "making" we do is typically musical in nature, and doesn't involve physical construction, occasionally we get a chance to work on a project. This was our first attempt at an instructable, and we're excited about how both it and the project turned out. We're definitely going to do more of this!
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 28, 2007 03:00 AM
DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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ArduinoSynth alpha
Collin writes -
Because I know there just aren't enough Arduino projects, I thought I'd tell you about my stab at an Arduino Synthesizer. It's currently monophonic with pitch control and a simple hardware low pass filter. I'm working on adding MIDI-in and hopefully vibrato in the future. Thanks for the inspiration, Make!Narbotic » Blog Archive » ArduinoSynth alpha - Link.
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 28, 2007 02:00 AM
Arduino, DIY Projects, Electronics, Music |
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August 27, 2007
Loud objects & Lullatone - electronicy music and soldering
If the Maker movement had a soundtrack I think there might be couple songs from Lullatone & Loud Objects / Tristan Perich/1-Bit Music. I went to Glasslands Gallery in NY, it's a warehouse-like space in Williamsburg that had a few bleepity-bloop electronic sampled music acts in one evening. Loud Objects being a live soldering show that screams out at you with Tristan drumming out in the end, a great contrast of meat and machine (the 1-bit music CD comes with chips too)... Lullatone is from Japan and there at one point I thought I was in a 3rd grade music class taken over by Hello Kitty, Super Mario and maybe a truck of sugar.... Good times -Link.
Does Making things have a sound? Post up your fave bands in the comments (the more DIY music instrument the better)...
Posted by Phillip Torrone |
Aug 27, 2007 11:00 AM
Arts, Electronics, Events, Music |
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