If you make your own electronics it’s a pain to figure out which PCB (printed circuit board) manufacturer has the lowest price based on size and other factors, sooo… here’s an great javascript PCB cost calculator – [via] Link.
Check out MAKE Flickr photo pool member Dnny’s Atari punk console inside a old Ericsson telephone. The number disc acts as interrupter – Link. Related: Atari Punk Console schematics – Link.
Michael writes – Graffiti is one of the most powerful and most personal displays in the urban experience, and can be used to make statements, tag territory, spread messages — urban markup language in practice. However, the output is nearly always visual in nature, making this experience one-dimensional. Furthermore, rarely does the work have a […]
Atmel based MIDI data analyzer – The MIDI Viewport is a data analyzer for MIDI messages. But it is also much more. Handheld, battery powered, and compact, it displays MIDI data in the order it is received, one byte at a time–using an LCD 2 line by 16 character display. Connected to a keyboard or […]
Peter writes – Mike Una has just written up a tutorial on how to make a $10 foot controller for music applications like Ableton Live, fashioned out of a QWERTY keyboard. (Other possible applications: gaming, VJing.) Clever keyboard mappings allow you to use your feet to control elaborate live music performances, whether you’re a beatboxer, […]
Mmmm, glowie – Single Tube clock blinks out the current time number by number. Quite easy to read! This clock is utilizing a Russian ИÐ-1 (IN-1) Nixie Tube & Socket. The PCB was home-made using the board designed by SQ8CBY. The original design and code for the PIC 16F84A was created by Electronics and More. […]
Paul Zbar, electronics educator from the Hickok photo archive, amazing stuff – Link.
