From the MAKE Flickr pool Eric’s new LITE2SOUND kit sounds like a lot of fun. He reports on some early experimentation using the board’s photodiode sensor – pointing it at a computer CRT yields a strange humming tone that varies depending on what the screen is displaying. The LED in an optical computer mouse plays […]
Flickr member Segwaymonkey got the new Spikenzielabs’ SpikenzieLabs Drum Kit-Kit and was inspired to create a set of laser-cut pads for it. Sweet. I love the engineering of the vibration-dampening “springs.” The Drum Kit Kit Laser Cut Rig
Are you sick of blaring TV’s? Wish you could do something about it?
Well you can with the this devious ultra-high-power version of the popular TV-B-Gone. Get yours at www.makershed.com
Denkitribe posted this rather sweet demo of Tinker.it!‘s Arduino based sound synthesizer project, appropriately titled “Auduino”. While some delay/reverb+accompaniment have definitely been added, the sweet sounds of granular synthesis still shine through – I built one and plugged a stylus controller which was ripped from Gakken SX-150. It works very well. Its sound is dry […]
Device Volume 1: Fantastic Contraption from the the Maker Shed celebrates the genius of invention and ingenuity with a showcase of works from an international roster of artists including–H.R. Giger, Ashley Wood, Stéphane Halleux, Viktor Koen, Christopher Conte, Gregory Brotherton, Mike Libby, Nemo Gould, and many others. Foreword by our very own Senior Editor, Gareth […]
MAKE subscriber Gregg Horton used a Thingamakit along with a hacked karaoke machine to create a rather large area of theremin-esque sound control. Cool – at around 2m30s in it does start working quite nicely! Check out more of Greg’s projects on the Groovy Pancakes blog. In the Maker Shed: Thing-a-ma KIT
Announcing our new bundles available exclusively in the Maker Shed. This time we packaged 4 of our favorite electronics kits, along with a Maker’s Notebook, to make one fantastic bundle. This would be a great selection of kits for your next MAKEcation! The Editor’s Choice electronics bundle includes: (1) MintyBoost $19.99 value (1) MiniPOV kit […]
