Dutch artist and music hacker Gijs Gieskes has struck again, this time hooking up a cassette machine (with audio on one channel, a rim-shot on the other, used as a trigger ) to an Ardunio and the Arduino to a Gakken SX-150, to create a sequencer for it. WalkSX More: How To – control a […]
We hope you’re having a fabulous Independence Day weekend. To help serenade your hangover from too much fun yesterday, here’s a guy playing the “Star Spangled Banner” on a baseball bat violin. Tres Americana! National Anthem [Thanks, Shawn!]
This supremely cool analog synth with a gorgeous etched-brass faceplace showed up on Steampunk Workshop, via the German synth site Synthesizer Database. The builder is Moritz Wolpert. Apparently, from the Google translation, all the knobs and handles were turned by hand on a lathe and the faceplace was hand-lettered, decorated and etched. The project took […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Strolling about my neighborhood last weekend, I happened upon an unusually shaped case at the site of a local memorial. Further investigation revealed the cases contents – a large wooden lightning bolt nestled in foam padding. I’m guessing either a former student of Sister Nicodema thinks she ‘totally rocked’ or […]
At last year’s Maker Faire Bay Area, Nathan Johnstone of Abney Park debuted a violin at the Saturday night show modded by artisan (and MAKE contributor) Molly Friedrich. Later in the year, at the Steampowered convention, Nathan debuted the Von Slatt Strat, a guitar modded by MAKE, Volume 17 cover maker Jake von Slatt. This […]
The Record Organ is an air compressor flute organ built by Hagai Cohen and prof. Mel Rosenberg. The organ uses single tone soprano recorders as the pipes. The Record Organ
[Photo from Feurig on Flickr] [Image from Feurig on Flickr] Photo from Feurig on Flickr Looks like we’ve got a nice BassMod project coming up in the MAKE Flickr pool. Stay tuned for more! Update 5-18-09 Donald writes in: There are two pieces to the current project. The first is to replace all of my […]
