Technology

Bryan Mumford’s inventions

Bryan Mumford’s inventions

Bryan Mumford has a few really interesting projects, I like “The Automatic Puny Tune Player”, he writes – The Automatic Puny Tune Player is a computerized Puny Tune “robot” that plays songs on an actual wooden Puny Tune by blowing air into the mouthpiece and opening and closing the finger holes with mechanical levers. For […]

The BroadWave synthesizer

The BroadWave synthesizer

This fellow is building an Arp 2600ish modular using Music From Outer Space modules, wow! He writes – So, 17 years ago I made a huge, HUGE mistake… I sold my dearly beloved ARP 2600 in order to buy an Atari STFM (remember those?) I always regretted doing this, and recently thought about getting another […]

Playaflies

I’ve only been to Burningman once and I couldn’t help but look at things as electronics projects and kits – one of projects “playaflies” consisted of LEDs inside ping pong balls and then attached to wires/PVC pipe, at night when attached to a bicycle they take on the movement of the rider as they move […]

DIY oxygen-propane cannon

DIY oxygen-propane cannon

Gadgetfreak has an explosive DIY oxygen-propane cannon – When Ed Nauman fires his oxygen-propane cannon, anybody within range of the shock wave will definitely see stars. It’s been known to shatter windows 30 ft to the rear! Propane is mixed with oxygen under control of a PIC microcontroller, in a barrel made from a 330 […]

SeriCon

SeriCon

Here’s a universal hardware control program through serial (COM) ports. It frees your hardware’s MCU from number coversion codes for serial communication, and also can be used as a pulse counter, generator or a timer, using control bits – Link.