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Daniel Park describes his approach to controlling circuit bent Alesis QSR Quadrasynth through MIDI data, simplifying control for musicians – With this design I wanted the entire bent interface under MIDI control. Any MIDI source: MIDI cc’s, program changes, tempo synch, MIDI machine commands, notation can be routed to any destination on the circuit bent interface via sysex programming. […] The […]
Looking for something to make with the cornstarch candy molds we posted earlier today? Try making your own cough drops! Sarah James at Instructables has the how-to on these lozenges.
The Foresight Institute has announced its Kartik M. Gada Humanitarian Innovation Prize to design and build a better RepRap. There is an interim prize of $20,000, and a grand prize of $80,000. They consulted with the core RepRap team before the announcement and we were initially concerned that the prizes might drive developers to secrecy […]
Gebhard Sengmüller’s Very Slow Scan Television uses injected ink and bubble wrap to recreates the scanning of CRT displays … very … slowly – Very Slow Scan Television (VSSTV) is a new television format that we have developed building upon Slow Scan Television (SSTV), an image transmission system used by Ham Radio amateurs. VSSTV uses […]
Insttructables user sandds writes: On my first attempt to make hard candy I discovered that the selection of molds available locally was pretty limited. Either the molds were not for high temperature or they were teddy bears or lollypops. So I decided to make my own. I have seen corn starch mold used for industrial […]
Our friends at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories created this ingenious set of cookies based on the class Asteroids video game. I think my favorite line is, “Pew Pew Pew!!! Nom Nom Nom!” Indeed!
