Perfboard prototyping project update 07/12/2010 In hindsight, I realized the wiring diagram I posted for the recent Circuit Skills perfboard project left something to be...
Kaossonome touch-sensitive LED matrix 07/08/2010 Inspired by the Kaoss Pad and monome music controller/interfaces, Alexander Randon created the Kaossonome The Kaossonome is my first electronic...
Now that’s a lotta perfboard … 07/07/2010 Wandering the halls of Wikipedia, I came across this jaw-droppingly complex example of a perfboarding project (stripboard, to be precise)....
Lego NXT drum machine drops mad beats 07/06/2010 Peter Cocteau turned the brain of the Lego Mindstorms platform into very cool little drum machine – the NXT-606, featuring...
When breadboards break thy brain … build a better breadboard 07/02/2010 If you’ve been watching the Circuit Skills videos, you’ve likely heard me grumble a bit about using breadboards. Indeed, I...
A physical tone matrix 07/01/2010 Inspired by the popular flash-based ToneMatrix melody-sequencer, Andrew decided he wanted a tangible 16×16 LED matrix instrument. Sure, there are...
Audio myths dispelled 06/30/2010 From ultra-low noise AC power cables to a frequency-calibrated jar of stones, it’s pretty amazing what can be sold in...
Audio Ballerinas 06/29/2010 Benoît Maubrey’s DIE AUDIO GRUPPE perform wearing/using “Audio Tutus” driven by hand-mounted light-to-frequency converters – Basically these are electro-acoustic clothes...
Album composed by algorithmic swarms 06/28/2010 Evan Merz’s album Black Allegheny was arranged by the behavior of many AI ‘agents’ functioning within a bit of Java-based...
Circuit Skills: Perfboard Prototyping, sponsored by Jameco Electronics 06/24/2010 [Note: Jameco is currently offering all the parts I used in this video as a perfboard prototyping kit — just...