Groovypancakes posted this SX-150 hacked into total funtime awesomeness with touch contacts, “weird sound switch”, and the button mod we featured recently – Nice. And along with that comes the conveniently handy Atari Punk Console flashlight –
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From the MAKE: Flickr pool Anachrocomputer shares with us this handmade piece of digital days gone by – Top view of the 300 baud acoustically-coupled modem that I built in 1984. I made the double-sided PCB myself with an etch-resist pen (Dalo pen) and some rub-down transfers. The main chip is the Motorola MC14412V single-chip […]
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The Open Reel Ensemble plasticizes voice and instrument recordings by way of USB controlled reel-to-reel tape machines. Sound Performance with Bending Reel-to-Reel Tape Decks. I Remade Old Reel-to-Reel Analog Tape Recorders to Musical Instruments and Enjoyed Music Session with Companion in University. And We Performed Music by Using this Instruments. (“Open Reel Ensemble” Will Perform […]
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From the Make: Flickr Pool comes the T.W.E.R.P., a ThingamaKIT housed in a 10″ Mad*L vinyl toy. Things I’ve Made More: ThingamaHat ThingamaKIT build photos Hacking the ThingamaKIT
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Next Sunday, any Austin analog synthesizer addicts have an event they should check out: Looks like fun for the rest of us, too:)
Continue ReadingFolks who were at the Bay Area Maker Faire may remember Lorin Parker and Electric Western. They were in the steampunk area, next to The Contraptors Lounge. Now the man who brought you the tube theramin and the steam-driven synthesizer is about to unleash his Phantastron kit on the world, a tube-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). […]
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Erica writes – I saw a program of Mary Ellen Bute’s short abstract films a couple weeks back at Anthology and was really impressed. Bute was a pioneering and innovative female filmmaker and animator whose work is still not widely known. Much of her early films function a bit like music videos. She called them […]
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