Computers & Mobile

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G1 PhoneTar

G1 PhoneTar

Photo from Connors934 on Flickr Do you have a phone with a touch screen? Have you tried out some music applications and found the thing a bit awkward to hold? Last year I saw some people messing with guitar application on their phones at the Boston Fab Lab and it got me thinking. When I […]

Wooden turntable, anyone?

Wooden turntable, anyone?

After successfully making his own delightfully funky but functional US$5 wooden tonearm, German maker Charles Altmann decided to keep a-goin and try his hand at creating a wooden turntable to go with it. He built the whole thing for around $50. The Altmann DIY Turntable [via No Tech Magazine]

Floppy notes

Floppy Disk Notepad – More DIY How To Projects Pocket notes are such a better way to remember than depending only on the gray matter software. Maybe you have a box or twelve of old floppy disks. If you can find the ones with software labels like Aldus Pagemaker, or the like, all the better. […]

Share synth sounds via Twitter

Tweet A Sound let’s you design and share synth patches by way of the ever-popular Twitter. The software represents your patch via a compact string of numbers. The 140 character limit keeps your tweakable parameter count relatively low, but this could be welcome if you’ve ever found yourself overwhelmed by the deluge of options common […]