The circuit artiste known simply as “bwack” has created what is probably the most excellent sampler I will see in this lifetime (unless a giant-sized trend begins after this). Instead of taps, this things accepts punches as input – he was commissioned by our good friends from the band family force 5 to construct the […]
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 […]
Linus Akesson and friends have created the “Craft” demo – using an ATmega88 to generate 4 channels of 8-bit sound and 3D graphics. Timing is crucial: One display line takes 24 μs, and is followed by a 7.75 μs break called the horizontal blanking period. After 480 such lines, there’s a longer break (1428.75 μs, […]
Get surprisingly good sound from disposable picnicware with this easy to make and inexpensive Styrofoam Plate Speaker. Thanks go to José Pino for the original article in Make Magazine. To download Styrofoam Plate Speaker MP4 click here or subscribe in iTunes. Check out the Styrofoam Plate Speaker article MAKE 12 “Styrofoam Plate Speaker” & You […]
Get surprisingly good sound from disposable picnicware. From Make Volume 12 by José Pino. PDF
Join me, won’t you? – as I travel back in time to assemble the New Edison Cup-style Phonograph.
Tiny “boom” box, built from a Lucky Strikes tin, an old MP3 player, an LM1877n-9 amp chip, and some garage sale speaks. It’s dubbed the “Mobile Oppression Unit.” Can it really be THAT loud? Or maybe it’s the likely lo-fidelity when cranked that makes it oppressive. Mobile Oppression Unit
