Circuit bent Casio keyboard makes some noise
This hack shows how to pitch-modify a Casio electronic keyboard using the LTC1799 Precision Oscillator kit. Read more about this interesting build at the link below. via GetLoFi
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MusicBox: music collection visualization
For her Masters thesis at the MIT Media Lab, Anita Lillie created a music library visualization tool called MusicBox. The project will analyze the songs in a music library and group them based on a number of different dimensions – stuff like song length, tempo, ID3 genre information, and more advanced spectral properties of the […]
Open Sesame – Using a CD rom drive and SSH to open a door
Nice hack! Emmanuel Florac and the rest of his officemates had a bit of a problem: while they could freely leave the office as they pleased, none of them could get back in. Undoubtedly, it had something to do with the new ironclad door and accompanying electronic locking mechanism that was recently installed. Try as […]
GiftStick – give the gift of Free Software – distributing flash drives with useful open-source desktop applications
Every year when I go home for the holidays, I wind up setting up new computers, printers and cameras, as well as troubleshooting and de-lousing all the old ones. For most of my relatives’ desktops, total computer meltdown takes about 3 months from time of install. So by December, most of these machines can be […]
Install OS X on a netbook
The new micro-sized “netbook” laptops that have popped up this year are quite nifty, but unfortunately for Mac users, none of them ship with OS X. Fortunately, while you wait for Apple to release their own model, you can hack most standard PC netbooks to run a patched version of OS X. Dan from Uneasy […]
Designer Moleskines
One of the longest standing information systems has got to be the notebook. With a notebook, you can put any idea down on paper, and get it out of your mind. Often this will give you more room for new and maybe even better ideas. Sometimes, the notebook itself can become a wonderful object in […]
Change the screen capture location in OS X Leopard
If you use the Command+Shift+3 or Command+Shift+4 commands to save screen captures, you know how quickly your desktop gets cluttered with mysteriously named PNG files. A post on the Sneak blog points to a solution to this problem for Leopard users: To change the default save location, open up Terminal and run the following command: […]
