What’s a Blendophone? It’s a “musical” instrument made from eight blenders controlled by an iPhone and an Arduino. My friend Usman Muzaffar is writing an iPhone app to control the beat sequencing and solo input, while I’m building the hardware and an Arduino sketch to switch the blenders on and off.
Highlights from the MAKE Flickr pool this week include a pinhole camera built from an eggshell, a collection of beautiful paper models of stellated polyhedra, a giant plush amoeba, a homemade spectroscope, and more!
The Carnegie Mellon Robotics Club built this Vibratron instrument as part of their ambitious RobOrchestra project. It looks awesome! I hope they go on tour soon. You can check out their website for more details, and some video demonstrations of the mechanisms involved on their YouTube channel. [via I Heart Robotics]
Reed Ghazala‘s Thereglyph looks oh-so sweet and sounds even better: Radio interference, traditionally a problem in audio, can be used to our advantage. By means of the Thereglyph instrument I would like to introduce to circuit-bending a concept I call radiopool. While Leon’s Theremin looks to onboard RF generation and sounds the same played anywhere, […]
Watch pyrotechnical artist Sanela Jahic create paintings with fire.
The official word about this Victorian house that has a secret garage is that it was created by Beausoleil Architects as a way to comply with building housing codes. I’m not buying it though- I think that it’s actually just a cover for a large, house-sized robot that needs to be fed cars periodically.
Joe DiPrima of ArcAttack! sent us a link to this video of their MIDI-orchestrated tools and appliance jam. We asked Joe to provide some more details of the build. Here’s what he sent us. Thanks, Joe! The completed 8-relay control board The main controller is basically just a MIDI-controlled powerstrip. We originally built it with […]
