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Lightefface Makes Music with Both Touch and Light

Lightefface Makes Music with Both Touch and Light

Kacper Ziemianin made a simple piano keyboard with an Arduino and some photoresistors. But it’s what he does with the data that makes beautiful music.

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Tracking Solar Brightness with a Homemade Sun Logger

Tracking Solar Brightness with a Homemade Sun Logger

The Sun Logger is a data logging device that records changes in light-brightness over time. This project will introduce you to the art of making your own Arduino shield, and record data to a SD card that can later be graphed and represented visually.

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Build a Custom Tremolo Effects Box

Build a Custom Tremolo Effects Box

The latest addition to our Weekend Projects series is an Optical Tremolo Box. Inspired by Charles Platt’s article about online DIY guitar stomp-box communities (MAKE Volume 15, page 82, “Stomp Box Basics: Tremolo and Fuzz”), MAKE Technical Editor Sean Ragan took up the challenge of building this project. He used a cadmium sulfide photoresistor as […]

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Light Theremin on Upcycled Dot Matrix Printer Board

Light Theremin on Upcycled Dot Matrix Printer Board

Remember, just because Weekend Projects is on break at the moment, that doesn’t mean you can’t send us your stories and pictures of your mods! Belfast-based hacker David writes in with this awesome upcycled Light Theremin

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Light Theremin Mod a Big Hit

Light Theremin Mod a Big Hit

During the course of Weekend Projects there were several projects that I was personally excited about, to both tinker with and write about. But there was one obvious crowd favorite among the fifteen beginner projects we built. While there was no competition per se, the Light Theremin was the obvious winner.

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Snap Circuit Light Theremin

Snap Circuit Light Theremin

The Light Theremin is officially one of our most-modded Weekend Projects so far, suitable for both beginner and novice makers dabbling in electronics. We’ve seen a breadboard prototype by Matt for his first foray into circuits, and a further modded version by Steven with a potentiometer thrown in for additional sound control. Now Edward writes […]

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Weekend Projects Light Theremin Mod

Weekend Projects Light Theremin Mod

Proving how extensible our own projects are, Weekend Projects reader Steven wrote in with his Light Theremin mod.

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