Sanguino microcontroller platform – Arduino’s big brother 08/08/2008 If you love the Arduino software but find yourself hampered by the included ATmega168 chip’s memory size or pin count,...
HOW To – Build a digital wall harp 08/08/2008 The My Home 2.0 crew seems pretty amped about their MIDI wall harp project – implemented here as a sort...
Reed Ghazala’s Bent BE-IN event – Cincinnati 9/7/08 08/08/2008 Alex writes – Just want to let everyone know about a very special upcoming Be-In Event hosted by Reed Ghazala...
piezo film + catapult physics 08/07/2008 A simple and fun example of physical computing – the piezo film responds to physical stress by producing a voltage...
Vital threads biofeedback apparel 08/07/2008 The above video interview with Sean Montgomery was recorded at the recent Last HOPE conference where Mr. Montgomery exhibited his...
Refreshingly straightforward robotic clock 08/07/2008 (Nope, it’s not a glimpse of an alternate reality where LEDs never came to be.) The “Stonehenge” clock-bot is more...
HOW TO – Old battery simulator/power supply for guitar pedals 08/07/2008 For most circumstances, an old battery exhibiting ‘voltage sag’ is a bad thing – but many fuzz pedal aficionados take...
Online generative music … generator 08/06/2008 The WolframTones algorithmic composition generator creates a new multi-instrument sequence with every click – WolframTones works by taking simple programs...
Big box o’ techno 08/06/2008 From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Eric’s “Big Box o’ Techno†packs a whole lotta audio ciruitry into a wooden...
Review – The VCO Chip Cookbook 08/06/2008 If you’re interested in building an analog synthesizer then the VCO (voltage controlled oscillator) circuit is the best place to...