This Web site has interactive tools that provide a unique learning experience for users, regardless of their musical training. Students of music composition can explore algorithmic composition, while others can create musical representations of models for the purpose of aural interpretation and analysis. Here, the algorithmic process is used in a creative context so that users can convert sequences of numbers into sounds. Link.
A contestant on a Japanese gameshow gets shot over a lake with pressurized water bottles strapped to his back. It looks like they’re all pressurized with bicycle pumps and then released all at the same time. He goes really far and high up in the air, I’m surprised he didn’t get hurt, yikes! The water rockets you can build are fun, not sure launching humans is a good idea, unless it’s for a game show. Link.
From the Linux-hacker forums- Here is the pinout for the CVS one time use camcorder. Pin 1 starts at the end where J5 is printed on the PCB. 1 no connection, 2 ground, 3 no connection, 4 Battery + (probably used to verify the battery level when recycling), 5 no connection, 6 USB +5V, 7 ground, 8 USB Data +, 9 USB Data -, 10 ground, Pins 6 – 9 is the only pins needed to connect to a USB port. Link.
More retro controllers made into USB controllers…how to make a Saturn pad, widely regarded as the best pad ever made ever (ever!), work with your PC, Mac or PS2 via the USB port. I’ve taken an off-the-shelf Elecom USB pad, removed the USB encoder chip and supporting components (two resistors, two capacitors and a crystal) and shoved them into a Saturn pad Link.
Derek Sajbel was on G4’s Attack of the show with a lot of circuit bending gear- what is circuit bending? It’s an electronic art that short circuits, bends, tweaks and mashes up the sound outputs of toys or just about anything that produces sound. Derek’s site has video, galleries and information about the circuit bending documentary. [via] Link.
Kenneth writes in how he solved the current unbookmarkable problem with MP3 podcasts….First tried using a digital player and then a MP3 CD player. I found neither device podcast friendly. What they lack is a way to book mark a podcast. My solution is to use the ordinary (non MP3) CD player installed in my car. Most CD writing software will make a standard (CDA audio) CD directly from MP3 file input. Now when I turn off my car or switch to the radio the CD podcast stays just where I left it. Anyone else have solutions?
A special commemorative FM broadcast Saturday, June 11, at noon (EDT) will mark the 70th anniversary of Edwin H. Armstrong’s first public demonstration of wideband frequency modulation (FM). The transmission, from Experimental Station WA2XMN (remiscent of Armstrong’s W2XMN call sign) will be on Armstrong’s original 42.8 MHz frequency and will emanate from his landmark 400-foot Alpine Tower in NJ. I wonder if someone will podcast it. [via] Link.
