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Laser Lissajous with Audio Sync

Laser Lissajous with Audio Sync

This project uses a Freeduino (Arduino clone) microcontroller, Python code, a couple of motors with attached mirrors, and a laser pointer to create patterns (Lissajous Figures) that are in sync with audio played from a computer. Objective The basic idea here is to create some laser patterns that are in sync with music (or any […]

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21st-Century Keytars

It’s all fun and games until someone turns those plastic Guitar Hero axes into real instruments. What musical possibilities lie hidden beneath those 5 rainbow-colored buttons? Within a few years of the video game’s launch in 2005, millions of its guitar-shaped controllers were manufactured. Sadly, many are collecting dust in closets across the globe. In […]

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