Displaying audio as light

Music Technology

By Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn

Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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HacknMod has compiled some how-tos on turning audio in light shows:

We’ve got three tutorials to help you learn how to convert audio signals to LED light. One tutorial lights the frosted edges of plexiglass. Another uses signals directly from a sound card. Which ever method you choose, the result will be stunning.

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6 thoughts on “Displaying audio as light”

  1. dave says:

    standards are slipping badly at Make…

  2. Gareth Branwyn says:

    Did you actually bother to go and look at the three Instructable projects linked to in the article or are you passing judgment based on the YouTube video, which was used here only as an illustration to the posting, not something to stand on its own.

  3. Temo says:

    This looks just like my project

    http://www.instructables.com/id/Raving-out-your-Computer/

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Gareth Branwyn is a freelance writer and the former Editorial Director of Maker Media. He is the author or editor of over a dozen books on technology, DIY, and geek culture. He is currently a contributor to Boing Boing, Wink Books, and Wink Fun. And he has a new best-of writing collection and “lazy man’s memoir,” called Borg Like Me.

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