Year: 2008

10 interesting tool chests

10 interesting tool chests via BBG. ..lots of beautifully crafted objects that fit intricately into a perfect container. Here are some of our favorites, including the stunning chest which resides in the Smithsonian and belonged to Organ and Piano maker, Henry O Studley at the other end of the scale is the garden variety, utilitarian […]

GorF 8-step sequencer

Paul of Vacoloco needed an easy way to test out some of his synth projects so he built a basic sequencer based on an ATmega16 chip – It sends MIDI notes and velocity on a user selectable Midi channel along with two MIDI CC’s (user selectable) and of course has variable sequence length. You can […]

Melocipede bicycle instrument

Neil Feather demonstrates his unusal pedal based instrument – The Melocipede รขโ‚ฌล“is a bicycle-based roto-zither. It has 14 strings (strung hub to rim) and 8 (1.5v ) motors and 4 magnetic pickups. The pickups run through a mixer as the melocipede is pedaled in both directions and bouncing plucking etc.happens. It sounds alternately like a […]

Image processing in Mathematica

A clown fish, diced into 40 pixel squares. Theodore Gray demonstrated some impressive image processing features of Mathematica 7 on the Wolfram blog. You can drag and drop an image right into a line of code and perform a number of image processing functions on it directly. I’m not sure how many of you are […]