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MIDI Keyboard Teardown and Analysis

David Cranor — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 02:30:55 +0000

Here is a great article from Open Music Labs which details the teardown and design of an old school MIDI keyboard.

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Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door

David Cranor — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 02:30:04 +0000

Upgrade Your Office With An RFID Reading Door

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Mammoth Modular Synthesizer At MIT Museum

David Cranor — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:00:10 +0000

Joe Paradiso has installed his homebuilt mammoth analog modular synthesizer in the MIT Museum and has completed a fairly epic patch which you can listen to (24 hours a day)

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Open Music Labs on Piezos

David Cranor — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 05:00:08 +0000

Here's a tutorial from Open Music Labs on piezo transducers.

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Open Music Labs on the ATmega328p ADC

David Cranor — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:15:31 +0000

Here's an amazing article from Open Music Labs which provides an in-depth explanation of the inner workings of the ATmega328p ADC, and how to squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.

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Codec Shield by Open Music Labs

David Cranor — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:00:18 +0000

One of our audio hardware contributors, David Cranor, is super-enthused about the Open Music Labs' Audio Codec Shield.

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Open Music Labs on Piezos

David Cranor — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 02:30:40 +0000

Here's a tutorial from Open Music Labs on piezo transducers.

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MIDI Keyboard Teardown and Analysis

David Cranor — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:33 +0000

Here is a great article from Open Music Labs which details the teardown and design of an old-school MIDI keyboard.

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Using XMEM to Read MIDI

David Cranor — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 15:30:46 +0000

Open Music Labs has released a tutorial and detailed build documentation on how to read 48-key electronic MIDI keyboard with the XMEM interface on an Atmega640.

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Shift Register Hacks

David Cranor — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 07:30:30 +0000

Did the dog eat all of your microcontroller I/O? Here's a handy little article from Open Music Labs on how to do some clever circuit hacking to allow a shift register (and thus as many switches as you could possibly want) to be read from 2 or even 1(!) microcontroller pins.

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