Month: March 2008

Ready, willing, and Abletonator!

Ready, willing, and Abletonator!

Woah – music meets gaming interface in a major way! The Abletonator incorporates a full Ableton Live music making workstation into an arcade cabinet. (don’t worry game fans, it was just a bar-style quiz/trivia machine) Create Digital Music gives a rundown on the specs: PC running Windows XP, Ableton Live 6 (hmmm… may want to […]

BATMAN: adhoc mesh routing

BATMAN (Better Approach To Mobile Ad-hoc Networking) is a routing protocol designed for multi-hop ad-hoc mesh networks. When you run BATMAN on routers in an ad-hoc network, the nodes in the network constantly send out little broadcast packets that are picked up and re-broadcast by nearby machines. Rather than have each node develop a formal […]

Firewinder adds LEDs to wind powered lighting

Firewinder adds LEDs to wind powered lighting

The “Firewinder”, developed by British maker/inventor, Tom Lawton, is a hanging, wind-powered light that spins horizontally to illuminate LEDs in a spiral motion across its face. The brightness of the LEDs depends on how fast the turbine spins which allows for a cool visualization of the wind in its immediate vicinity. Really simple application, but […]

Game console guitars

Game console guitars

In the quest for ‘ultimate tone’ many designs have been attempted, but few know the musical potential held within an old game console such as the above NESpaul & Dream-tele-Cast-er. Seriously, these makers have gone to impressive lengths in order to convert classic plastic enclosures into instrument bodies (which could be a blasphemous process to […]