Hack an Old DC Motor to Provide Rotary Input
Watch a Redditor share how he hacked a DC motor and hooked it up to an Arduino to use as an encoder.
Continue ReadingWatch a Redditor share how he hacked a DC motor and hooked it up to an Arduino to use as an encoder.
Continue ReadingLittleBits, purveyors of the simple-to-use electronic components with magnetic connectors, is releasing some brand new bits to expand its music capabilities: a MIDI module, a USB I/O module, and a CV module. Musical makers now have the ability to connect their littleBits Synth Kit to any musical equipment they want! In collaboration with KORG, littleBits launched […]
Continue ReadingMoog synthesizer co-inventor Herbert Deutsch played Maker Faire Detroit as part of The Henry Ford’s 50th anniversary celebration of the first Moog.
Continue ReadingGoogle engineer Eric Schaepler has a passion for antique display technologies.
Continue ReadingGraphic designer Echo Yang has managed to generate some surprisingly beautiful images by harnessing the drawing skills of analog devices with an ingenious project called “Autonomous Machines.”
Continue ReadingWithout an external digital to analog converter circuit, getting pulse width modulation out of more than a single PWM pin on the Raspberry Pi could be achieved by writing your own code to set the pins high and low at the appropriate time (i.e. bitbanging). The solution isn’t perfect, however. Since you’re sharing the CPU […]
Continue ReadingJoe Paradiso has installed his homebuilt mammoth analog modular synthesizer in the MIT Museum and has completed a fairly epic patch which you can listen to (24 hours a day)
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