Month: July 2008

Turn your old lamps into spy gear

Turn your old lamps into spy gear

This project turns a vintage “Planet Lamp” into a parabolic microphone for recording and uses a CMoy, low power amplifier circuit for the microphone. The whole project runs runs from a 9 volt battery. Check out the link for circuit diagrams and instructions for this project. The Lamp – Parabolic Microphone

Chimera bC8 palmtop synthesizer

Chimera bC8 palmtop synthesizer

Younger sibling to the bC16 the new Chimera bC8 lacks the patchable banana jacks but has a whole some sweet sequencing features – A powerful DSP generates a VCO and LFO (similar to the bC16), also the DSP performs VCF and VCA functions as well controlling the patching of functions to each other and running […]

DIY Softbox from an umbrella

DIY Softbox from an umbrella

This instructable shows you how to make a really nice softbox out of a silvered umbrella. The total project cost was about $23, which is a lot less than any professional model. So this buddy of mine has a really cool 26″ softbox (Wescott Apollo) that is unique in that it has an internal umbrella […]